Re: st: prvalue with many dummy variables

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 10:30 PM 3/10/2012, Vitorino, Maria Ana wrote:
> Dear Statalist members,
>
> 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?

Like Joseph says, -margins- is the way to go. And if you have Stata 
12, -marginsplot- can be very helpful for graphing the results. For 
more on margins, see

http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats/Margins01.pdf

If you want predicted probabilities for all 20 schools, I would tweak 
Joseph's example and make it

margins school , at(sex=1 age=20)

With margins it is also easy to plug in different values for sex and 
age if you want, e.g. have age range between 20 and 30 or whatever is 
reasonable. The output can be hard to read (because there can be so 
much of it) but -marginsplot- can help make it more intelligible.


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