st: Prediction after xtgee

[tlum@umn.edu]

I ran a xtgee regression, with a list of chronic illnesses as right hand 
side variables, together which a few demographic and health insurance 
variables. The dependent variable is health care cost. I want to see how 
each chronic illness affect the costs, after controlling for demographic 
and insurance variables.

I generated the predicted value of the cost variable and summarize the 
predict costs by chronic illness. It seems that this may not be the correct 
way to do so. It seems that they may not be the right way to do so. I 
should set all chronic illness variable to zero except the targeted one. I 
tried to use the following comment

predict newvar if chronic1==1 & chronic2==0 $ chronic3==0...... &e(sample)

But it seems that by using this comment, STATA only predicted the costs for 
those observation with chronic==1.

Please suggest the corrected way to generate predicted cost for each 
chronic illness.

Thanks a lot.

Terry Lum
University of Minnesota  



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