Re: st: Setting confidence intervals with -prvalue- after -ologit-

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Good question.

I started with

. set trace on
. set traced 1

and ran your example. I think I had to bump up to -set traced 2-.

This way I found that -_pepred- was complaining and checked that the
problem lay in your call being rejected by its -syntax- statement.
This looked like a helper program but a check showed that it has its
own help file.

So it's easy!

Nick

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:55 PM, MacLennan, Graeme
<g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> Nick thank you for this information. As an aside, I would like to try and track information like this down myself in future. How did you know to look "there"?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 01 September 2011 15:40
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Setting confidence intervals with -prvalue- after -ologit-
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> _pepred in this package insists on integer arguments; that is what biting. The restriction is documented, but you need to look at the specific help file. I don't know of any arguments for this except convention, but you need to ask the authors.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, MacLennan, Graeme <g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I am using -prvalue- from -spost- version 9 from http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata (-findit spost-) to get predicted probabilities and differences after using -ologit-.  The command -prvalue- has a -level(#)- option to specify the width of confidence intervals. I wanted to use 97.5% Cis but it would appear that only integer values are accepted? The following syntax tells me that "option level() incorrectly specified" and  "invalid syntax" repectively. If this can be reproduced, I will send off an email to the address in the help file.  (Perhaps there is a good reason, or I am doing something stupid).
>> Graeme.
>>
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> ologit  rep78 price foreign, or level(97.5) prvalue, x(foreign=0)
>> level(97.5)
>>
>> set level 97.5
>> ologit  rep78 price foreign, or
>> prvalue, x(foreign=0)
>>
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