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Re: st: Re: prvalue with many dummy variables
From
"Vitorino, Maria Ana" <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Re: prvalue with many dummy variables
Date
Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:05:17 +0000
Thanks!!!
Ana
On Mar 11, 2012, at 3:38 AM, "Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maria Ana Vitorino wrote:
>
> If I fit a logit model with many dummy variables such as:
>
> logit pass sex age school_d*
>
> where school_d* includes dummies for schools numbered from 1 to 20, i.e.
> school_d1, school_d2, ,,,, school_d20
>
> how can I calculate a predicted probability without having to specify values for
> all the 19 schools that take value 0?
>
> For example, suppose I want to do something like
> prvalue x(sex=1 age=20 school_d1=1 school_d2=0 school_d3=0 etc)
>
> Is there a way of not having to write in the command line above that
> school_d[i]=0 for every i other than 1?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The easiest way would be to use factor variables and -margins-. It's
> illustrated below. An alternative that works for older version of Stata is to
> use -lincom- and then transform the linear prediction. That's also illustrated
> below. (The first part just creates a fictional dataset to use for
> illustration.)
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> version 11.2
>
> clear *
> set more off
> set seed `=date("2012-03-10", "YMD")'
> quietly set obs 20
> generate byte school = _n
> generate byte count = 50
> expand count
> generate byte pass = 0.5 < runiform()
> generate byte sex = 0.5 < runiform()
> generate byte age = 18 + floor(4 * runiform())
> logit pass i.sex c.age i.school, nolog
>
> *
> * Easiest
> *
> margins , at(sex=1 age=20 school=1)
>
> *
> * Alternative
> *
> quietly lincom _b[_cons] + _b[age] * 20 + _b[1.sex]
> display in smcl as text "Pr(pass | sex == 1 & " ///
> "age == 20 & school == 1) = " ///
> as result %05.3f invlogit(r(estimate))
>
> exit
>
>
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