> On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Faradj Koliev <farad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have two logistic regression models: > > > • model <- glm(Y ~ X1+X2+X3+X4, data = data, family = "binomial") > > > > • modelInteraction <- glm(Y ~ X1+X2+X3+X4+X1*X4, data = data, family = > "binomial") > > To calculate the marginal effects (MEM approach) for these models, I used the > `mfx` package: > > > • a<- logitmfx(model, data=data, atmean=TRUE) > > > > •b<- logitmfx(modelInteraction, data=data, atmean=TRUE) > > > What I want to do now is 1) plot all the results for "model" and 2) show the > result just for two variables: X1 and X2. > 3) I also want to plot the interaction term in ”modelInteraction”.
There is no longer a single "effect" for X1 in modelInteraction in contrast to the manner as there might be an "effect" for X2. There can only be predictions for combined situations with particular combinations of values for X1 and X4. > model Call: glm(formula = Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4, family = "binomial", data = data) Coefficients: (Intercept) X1 X2 X3 X4 -0.3601 1.3353 0.1056 0.2898 -0.3705 Degrees of Freedom: 68 Total (i.e. Null); 64 Residual Null Deviance: 66.78 Residual Deviance: 62.27 AIC: 72.27 > modelInteraction Call: glm(formula = Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 + X1 * X4, family = "binomial", data = data) Coefficients: (Intercept) X1 X2 X3 X4 X1:X4 90.0158 -90.0747 0.1183 0.3064 -15.3688 15.1593 Degrees of Freedom: 68 Total (i.e. Null); 63 Residual Null Deviance: 66.78 Residual Deviance: 61.49 AIC: 73.49 Notice that a naive attempt to plot an X1 "effect" in modelInteraction might pick the -90.07 value which would then ignore both the much larger Intercept value and also ignore the fact that the interaction term has now split the X4 (and X1) "effects" into multiple pieces. You need to interpret the effects of X1 in the context of a specification of a particular X4 value and not forget that the Intercept should not be ignored. It appears to me that the estimates of the mfx package are essentially meaningless with the problem you have thrown at it. > a Call: logitmfx(formula = model, data = data, atmean = TRUE) Marginal Effects: dF/dx Std. Err. z P>|z| X1 0.147532 0.087865 1.6791 0.09314 . X2 0.015085 0.193888 0.0778 0.93798 X3 0.040309 0.063324 0.6366 0.52441 X4 -0.050393 0.092947 -0.5422 0.58770 --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 dF/dx is for discrete change for the following variables: [1] "X1" "X2" "X4" > b Call: logitmfx(formula = modelInteraction, data = data, atmean = TRUE) Marginal Effects: dF/dx Std. Err. z P>|z| X1 -1.0000e+00 1.2121e-07 -8.25e+06 <2e-16 *** X2 6.5595e-03 8.1616e-01 8.00e-03 0.9936 X3 1.6312e-02 2.0326e+00 8.00e-03 0.9936 X4 -9.6831e-01 1.5806e+01 -6.13e-02 0.9511 X1:X4 8.0703e-01 1.4572e+01 5.54e-02 0.9558 --- Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 dF/dx is for discrete change for the following variables: [1] "X1" "X2" "X4" I see no sensible interpretation of the phrase "X1 effect" in the comparison tables above. The "p-value" in the second table appears to be nonsense induced by throwing a model formulation that was not anticipated. There is a negligible improvement in the glm fits: > anova(model,modelInteraction) Analysis of Deviance Table Model 1: Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 Model 2: Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 + X1 * X4 Resid. Df Resid. Dev Df Deviance 1 64 62.274 2 63 61.495 1 0.77908 So the notion that the "X1 effect" is now "highly significant" where it was before not even suggestive of significance seem to point to either an error in the underlying theory or a failure to anticipate and trap (and warn the user) that an erroneous model (or at least an unanticipated model) is being passed to a procedure. At least the 'effects- package gives you a tiny warning about this issue, although I think it really should throw an informative error when a user attempts to estimate only a "main effect" in a model that has an interaction involving such a covariate: > library(effects) > effect('X1', model) X1 effect X1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0.06706123 0.08582757 0.10923061 0.13805139 0.17299973 0.21459275 > effect('X1', modelInteraction) NOTE: X1 is not a high-order term in the model X1 effect X1 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0.0002418661 0.0009864740 0.0040142251 0.0161843996 0.0629206979 0.2151098752 > effect('X1:X4', modelInteraction) X1*X4 effect X4 X1 6 6.2 6.4 6.6 6.8 7 0 0.1100479 0.005686142 0.0002643982 1.223058e-05 5.656287e-07 2.615838e-08 0.2 0.1285241 0.012352473 0.0010595321 8.994106e-05 7.628099e-06 6.469071e-07 0.4 0.1495811 0.026625017 0.0042357682 6.610806e-04 1.028639e-04 1.599803e-05 0.6 0.1734015 0.056446132 0.0167737545 4.841483e-03 1.385458e-03 3.954877e-04 0.8 0.2001225 0.115698003 0.0640377838 3.454327e-02 1.836677e-02 9.689636e-03 1 0.2298165 0.222481442 0.2153150766 2.083177e-01 2.014893e-01 1.948297e-01 -- David. > > > I have been looking around for the solutions but haven't been able to find > any. I would appreciate any suggestions. > > A reproducible sample: > >> dput(data) > structure(list(Y = c(0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, > 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), X1 = c(1L, 0L, 1L, > 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 1L, > 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, > 1L, 0L), X2 = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), X3 = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 0L, 0L, > 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L > ), X4 = c(6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, > 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, > 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, > 7L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 6L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, > 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L, 7L)), .Names = c("Y", "X1", "X2", > "X3", "X4"), row.names = c(NA, -69L), class = "data.frame") > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. 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