Re: st: Graphic displays or results from margins

[Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com>]

-margins- does have the post option.

As start, you could do something this:

webuse nhanes2f, clear
logit diabetes i.black i.female age i.female#c.age, nolog
margins female#black, at(age = (20(10)70)) post
matrix b = r(b)
matrix at = r(at)
mata
   b =st_matrix("b")
   b = rowshape(b,6)
   st_matrix("b", b)
end
clear
svmat at
svmat b
line b* at5

It would be nice to extract the information in the r(b) matrix to
relabel the legend, but I am not sure how.

Scott


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Richard Williams
<richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am warming up to the new margins command.  However, unlike the older
> adjust command, margins does not include the ability to generate new
> variables. I am therefore finding it hard to create graphic displays of the
> results.
>
> Consider the following:
>
> webuse nhanes2f, clear
> logit diabetes i.black i.female age i.female#c.age, nolog
> margins female#black, at(age = (20(10)70))
>
> I would love to create a graphic where the Y axis was the probability of
> diabetes, the X axis was age, and there were 4 separate lines, for black
> males, black females, nonblack males, nonblack females. I imagine I could
> generate variables myself (basically replicating what margins is doing) or
> (ugh!) cut and paste results into an excel spreadsheet. But, is there some
> nice, simple approach for doing this? The prgen command in Long & Freese's
> spost9 suite of commands can do things like this, but it doesn't support
> many of the features of margins, e.g. it doesn't work with factor variables,
> and things like interaction terms are going to confuse it.
>
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