[Limdep Nlogit List] Calculating predicted values from zero inflated model

William Greene wgreene at stern.nyu.edu
Sat Aug 25 05:52:49 EST 2007


Mr. Wells. The predictions from the ZIP model are
F(alpha'x2) * exp(beta'x)
where alpha is the coefficient vector in the inflation equation,
F is the logit cdf, beta is the coefficient vector in the Poisson
model.  This will not resemble b'x.
/Bill Greene

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wells, Aaron" <Aaron.Wells at healthways.com>
Date: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:27 pm
Subject: [Limdep Nlogit List] Calculating predicted values from zero	inflated model

> All,
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has code to share on recreating the predicted
> values from a zero inflated model with an independent logit model for
> the zero values.  The code below yields rather flat predicted values
> (referring to values in "preds" var) that are not equal to those
> generated by Limdep (referring to values in "pred_tru").
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> namelist; x =
> ONE,AGE,GENDER2,PRED_RI1,EE0_2,EE0_3,EE0_4,EE0_5,EE0_7,EE0_8,EE0_9,BU_2,
> BU_3,BU_4,BU_5,BU_6,BU_7$
> NEGBIN;
> 	Lhs = abs_trun;
> 	Rhs = x;
> 	ZIP;
> 	Rh2 = ONE,AGE,GENDER2,PRED_RI1;
>          Keep = pred_tru;
> 	Res = res_tru;
>          Fill$
> 
> CREATE; preds=b'x$
> 
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