Re: st: nlcom and delta method

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Tue, 3/8/10, Beatrice Crozza wrote:
> I did a maximum likelihood, using delta method, to get the
> values.
> 
> So, for example, one result of my maximum likelihood using
> delta method is this one:
> 
> 
> . nlcom (a: 1/(1+exp(-[ar]_b[_cons])))
> 
> Now I wan to test a no linear combinations, using the
> coefficient of a , however the usual command for the
> coefficient: _b[a] doesn't work.

if you want to access _b[a] then the command that created
a must be an estimation command, and by default -nlcom-
is not an estimation command. You can turn -nlcom- into
an estimation command by specifying the -post- option.
However now the results of your previous maximum 
likelihood command are overwritten. So this won't work if 
you want to use parameters from your maximum likelihood
command. In that case it is probably best to do the entire
opperation in one -nlcom- command. In that case it is 
often convenient to store a string containing the command
used to create a (n.b. not the value but the command) in
a local. Say that your second non-linear combination is
a / [ar]_b[x], then I would do that as follows:

local a "( 1/(1+exp(-[ar]_b[_cons])) )" 
nlcom (b: `a'/[ar]_b[x])

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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