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RE: st: Predict in version 11
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"Marnix Zoutenbier" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Predict in version 11
Date
Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:52:35 +0100
Dear Nick,
Thank you for your response. However, your solution is not what I mean. I
want to predict forboth testset==1 and testset==2, but I want Stata to
predict a missing value in the case that x1=4 in testset==2 because x1=4
does not appear in testset==1.
However, in version 11 Stata also predicts in testset==2 for values of x1
that do not appear in testset==1 (trainingset). Stata uses the constant to
predict, which I think, is very confusing in large datasets. In version 10,
Stata predicts a missing value in those cases, which is, in my opinion, the
proper way to proceed.
Thank you in advance for your consideration,
Best regards,
Marnix
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From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To: "'[email protected]'"
<[email protected]>
Date: 08-12-2010 13:38
Subject: RE: st: Predict in version 11
Sent by: [email protected]
The solution appears to be just a twist away from that already given.
... if testset == 1
Otherwise put, -predict- allows -if- (and -in-), so just specify whatever
restrictions you want.
Nick
[email protected]
Marnix Zoutenbier
Neil his reaction is correct. However, it shows that I did not formulate my
problem accurate, because it is not the solution that works for me.
Let me extend the example with one extra observation to make myself more
clear
x1 testset y
1 1 12
2 1 13
3 1 14
4 2 .
3 2 .
So the last observation is defined by x1 in the same way as the third
observation. The testset (testset==2) consists of 2 observations, from
which the observation with x1=3 can be predicted based on the traininset
(testset==1) but the observation with x1=4 can not be predicted because
x1=4 is not in the trainingset.
First in version 11
version 11
anova y x1 if testset==1
predict yhat
Gives the following result in version 11
x1 testset y yhat
1 1 12 12
2 1 13 13
3 1 14 14
4 2 . 12
3 2 . 14
Now in version 10
version 10
anova y x1 if testset==1
predict yhat
Gives the following result
x1 testset y yhat
1 1 12 12
2 1 13 13
3 1 14 14
4 2 . .
3 2 . 14
This problem is not fixed with the 'e(sample)' suggestion, because I do
want to predict in the testset (outside e(sample)), however, I only want
predictions for values of x1 that are used in the trainingset (testset==1).
From: Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Marnix Zoutenbier
> I see a difference in the way predict works between Stata10 and 11.
>
> Consider the following example
> x1 testset y
> 1 1 12
> 2 1 13
> 3 1 14
> 4 2 .
>
> And the commands
> anova y x1 if testset==1
> predict yhat
>
> The following is the result in version 11
> x1 testset y yhat
> 1 1 12 12
> 2 1 13 13
> 3 1 14 14
> 4 2 . 12
>
> While in version 10 the following dataset results
> x1 testset y yhat
> 1 1 12 12
> 2 1 13 13
> 3 1 14 14
> 4 2 . .
>
> I prefer the version 10 way-of-working, because it gives me the
opportunity
> to identify observations that are in the testset (testset==2) and not in
> the trainingset (testset==1).
>
> Is it possible to obtain the same result in version 11 as in version 10,
> other than switching with the version command before and after predict?
Yes, see the -man predict- page
(http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?predict), items 6 and 7 in the
Description section near the top...
predict can be used to make in-sample or out-of-sample predictions:
6. predict calculates the requested statistic for all
possible observations, whether they were used in fitting the model or
not. predict does this for the standard options 1 through 3 and
generally does this for estimator-specific options 4.
7. predict newvar if e(sample), ... restricts the prediction
to the estimation subsample.
So in your above example under Stata 11 you should use...
predict yhat if(e(sample))
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