Re: st: interaction effects vs. interaction coefficients using contrast?

[Colleen Nugent <cnugent@sociology.rutgers.edu>]

Thanks again, Maarten.

I guess I can't really make that kind of alteration that you would make for your Stata tip example.  I have a three-category by three-category interaction and I'm interested in several different comparisons for different reasons.  So it looks like margins with lincom might be the simplest way to do that.

So my second question then is:  I tried the margins syntax you suggest in the Stata tip, but I get the error "option over() not allowed r(198)."  I am assuming this is because -over- treats each group as its own subpopulation, but I am already specifying a subpopulation that is my analytic subsample using svy, subpop().  Instead I have tried "margins varA#varB, [options]" and "margins varA, at(varB=(1 2 3)) [other options]" and I get slightly different results.  I'm not quite sure which is the best substitute for the over option (or is there some other?).  

Many thanks for your time and expertise!
Colleen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen Nugent" <cnugent@sociology.rutgers.edu>
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 10:29:26 AM
Subject: Re: st: interaction effects vs. interaction coefficients using contrast?

Thank you, Maarten.

Following the example you gave in the Stata tip, if I wanted to know whether black women with a college degree had significantly different odds than white women with a college degree, the best way to do it is to use margins and then lincom to make this comparison?  

Also, I tried the margins syntax you suggest, but I get the error "option over() not allowed r(198)."  I am assuming this is because -over- treats each group as its own subpopulation, but I am already specifying a subpopulation that is my analytic sample using svy, subpop().  Instead I have tried "margins varA#varB, [options]" and "margins varA, at(varB=(1 2 3)) [other options]" and I get slightly different results.  I'm not quite sure which is the best substitute for the over option (or is there some other?).  (I'm brand new to Stata 12, margins, and even the factor variable notation as I used Stata 10 previously.)

Thanks for your help!
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