--- "Supnithadnaporn, Anupit" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running a simulation of the logit model. Each repetition I
> create a variable called "a", which is normally distributed. I would
> like to find the marginal effect of this variable at the certain
> percentiles of its distribution. The problem is that I cannot
> specify the number of the particular percentile in -mfx, predict(p)
> at( )- because I don't know the value in each repetition.
Apart from the excellent comments by Martin, you can also use the fact
that you do have a good idea what the percentile should be, as you
created the variable to be normally distributed:
local percentile = invnormal(.05)
The advantage of this approach is that this way you can get away with
creating smaller datasets, and thus speed up your simulation, because
you now no longer need a large dataset to get a reliably/stable
estimate of the percentile.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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