[R] Help Computing Probit Marginal Effects

[(Ted Harding)]

On 27-Feb-10 17:57:56, Cardinals_Fan wrote:
> 
> One last question.  I'm trying to use the rnorm() function to
> draw a distribution for my coefficient estimates.  Let's say
> I have a model y* = a + b1x1.  I have the coefficient estimate
> for b1 stored as b1 and the standard error estimate for b1
> stored as s1.  I run rnorm function as
> 
> a <- rnorm(1000,b1,s1) 
> 
> and I get NA values in the vector.  If i dont use scalars it
> works fine.  Is there a special way scalars are entered to
> make it work?  I have also tried the dnorm command.
> 
> --

It should not happen that you get NAs *provided s1 >= 0 and
neither b1 nor s1 is NA*. So check what values you have stored
in b1 and s1. (In fact if you have s1 < 0 you will get NaN
rather than NA, so "s1 < 0" should not be the source of the problem).

What I suspect is that, for some reason to do with your data,
you have got NA for 'a' or for 'b1'.

Ted.

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Date: 27-Feb-10                                       Time: 18:25:02
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