Re: st: Logit transformation

[hounaz@uni-hohenheim.de]

Hello,

Thank you for your explanation. This is what I am trying to do. I want  
to relate the probability of being poor to the logit coefficients in a  
linear function.


Zitat von "Maarten buis" <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>:


> --- hounaz@uni-hohenheim.de wrote:
> > I would to ask you a technical question on the transformation of
> > logit coefficients into non-negative weights.
> >
> > For example, I have run a logit regression which gave the following
> > results:
> >
> > logodds= 0.2198*agrhh +0.7161*ea_trad_boma - 0.0673*ruralnorth
> >            + 0.1807*ruralcentre - 0.4402*ruralsouth;
> >
> > odds= p/(1-p) is the odd ratio
> > p is the probability of being poor the explanatory variables are all
> > categorical and take the value of 0 or 1.
> >
> > Now, I want to transform all of the coefficients into non-negative
> > integers (based on a linear relationship as above) so that the
> > prediction of the logodds  ranges from 0 to 100.
> What I think you want to know is how the explanatory variables
> influence the probability of being poor. The fact that the probability
> is a number between 0 and 1 (or 0 and 100, if you prefer to think in
> terms of percentages) does not mean that the effects have to be
> positive. I certainly does not mean that the effect has to be an
> integer, this is not true for the probability either. An excelent text
> on interpreting these kinds of models is J. Scott Long & Jeremy
> Freese's "Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using
> Stata" published by the Stata Press:
> http://www.stata-press.com/books/regmodcdvs.html .
>
> Anyhow, if my assumption of what you want is correct, the command you
> are looking for is -mfx-, see -help mfx-.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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