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Re: st: 'margin' and marg. effects of second-order polynomials
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Tirthankar Chakravarty <[email protected]>
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Re: st: 'margin' and marg. effects of second-order polynomials
Date
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:53:12 -0800
Use continuous interactions:
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webuse fullauto, clear
oprobit rep77 foreign length c.mpg#c.mpg
margins, dydx(mpg)
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T
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Justina Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am estimating (using oprobit, unfortunately) a functional relationship of
> the following kind (simplified)
>
> Pr(F) = ax + bx^2 + other stuff.
>
> I am interested in the marginal effect: dPr(F)/dx = a + 2bx
>
> Using margin, I get marginal effects as if x and x^2 were two separate
> variables, even though I interact the factor x (x##x) in my specification.
>
> Is there a way to make 'margin' estimate dPr(F)/dx, taking into account the
> functional relationship ?
>
> Browsing the Stata archive did not help....and calculating by hand is
> probably rather unfeasible.
>
> Thanks
>
> Justina
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