--- On Thu, 21/1/10, Melanee Thomas wrote:
> I have a question about dprobit and lincom. Specifically,
> when I run lincom after dprobit, the returned lincom result
> is a probit coefficient, rather than the dF/dx reported by
> dprobit. Is there an option I can use to transform the
> probit coefficient returned by lincom to the dF/dx reported
> by dprobit?
Depending on your version of Stata -mfx- (< 11) or -margins-
(11).
> Stated differently, is there a way to get lincom
> to deliver an unexponentiated result?
This is a common misunderstanding, the exponentiated coeficients
are only meaningful after -logit- but not after -probit-. So,
-dprobit- doesn't exponentiate coefficients.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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