Re: st: Adjusted Prevalence from Logistic models

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Abdelouahid Tajar wrote:
> You get the same result though!
>
> margins, at(sex==1 _Igroup_2 ==0 _Igroup_3==0 )
>
> uses ,as I understand, sex==1 and group=reference, no?
>
> with xi: margins uses dummy variables created by xi.
>
> Could you please explain why it is dangerous in the case where there is no interaction in the model.

It is dangerous to have a habit of using things that are not meant to
work even though there may be special situations where it does work,
because it is human nature to forget that such "tricks" only works in
very special situations and you will end up using it in situations
where it is not appropriate, for example with the -dydx(). option or
when you do have interactions.  -margins- is designed to work with
factor variables and not -xi:-. As you noticed, there are situations
where -margins- in combination with -xi:- gives you correct answers,
but those are coincidences, and I would not want to rely on
coincidences when doing an analysis.

-- Maarten

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