[R] Marginal effects in negative binomial

[John Fox]

Dear Roberto,

It depends on what you mean by "marginal effects," but the effects package
will calculate what I would prefer to call "partial effects" for terms in a
generalized linear model; it should work fine with objects produced by
glm.nb.

I hope this helps,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox


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> Subject: [R] Marginal effects in negative binomial
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I carry out negative binomial estimations using the glm.nb command from
the
> MASS package.
> Is there a command or a simple procedure for computing marginal effects
from
> a glm.nb fitted object?
> If these are the same as for a Poisson fitted object (glm), my question
> remains how to compute them.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> Roberto Patuelli
> 
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