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{* 2005-02-06}{...}
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help for {hi:_pecidelta}{right:2/6/2005}
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{title: Utility to implement the delta method for calculating confidence intervals}

{p 8 15 2}{cmd:_pecidelta} [{cmd:,}
{cmdab:s:ave}
{cmdab:d:iff}]

{title: Description}

{p 4 4 2}
{cmd:_pecidelta} is a utility command that calculates confidence
intervals for prediction and discrete changes by {search delta}
method using analytical derivatives. It applies to {help logit},
{help probit}, {help cloglog}, {help ologit}, {help oprobit},
{help gologit}, {help mlogit}, {help poisson}, and {help nbreg}.

{title: Options}

{p 4 8 2}
{cmd:save} saves current values of indepenent variables and predictions
for computing changes using the diff option.

{p 4 8 2}
{cmd:diff} computes difference between current predictions and those that
were saved.

{title: Global Matrices}

{p 4 4 2}
The second row of the following matrices contains predicted probabilities and
the sixth row contains differences for predicted probabilities.

{p 4 8 2}
peupper: _pecidelta calculates confidence intervals for prediction
and place upper end into the global matrix peupper.

{p 4 8 2}
pelower: _pecidelta calculates confidence intervals for prediction
and place lower end into the global matrix pelower.

{title: Examples}

{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._pebase `if' `in' , `x' `rest' `choices' `all'}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:.mat `tobase' = r(pebase)}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._pepred, `level' `maxcnt'}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:.local maxc = r(maxcount)}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:.local lvl = r(level)}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:.capture _return drop pepred}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._return hold pepred}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._return restore pepred, hold}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:...}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:...}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:...}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._pecollect, inout("`io'") level(`lvl')  /// }{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:.     maxcount(`maxc') `diff' `reps'}{p_end}
{p 4 8 2}{cmd:._pecidelta, `save' `diff'}{p_end}

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{p 2 4 2}Authors: J. Scott Long & Jun Xu{p_end}
{p 11 4 2}{browse www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/spost.htm}{p_end}
{p 11 4 2}spostsup@indiana.edu{p_end}