effects_ProbitSpatial {ProbitSpatial}R Documentation

Effects of a spatial probit model.

Description

Returns the marginal effects of a ProbitSpatial model.

Usage

effects_ProbitSpatial(object)

Arguments

object

an object of class ProbitSpatial.

Details

The effects function has different outputs according to the DGP of the ProbitSpatial model:

"SAR"

The marginal effects of a spatial autoregressive model are more complicated than usual measurements of impacts for non spatial models. Here we follow LeSage and Pace and propose the following summaries for impact measures:

Average direct effects:

the average over all the observations of the effects of the change of an explanatory variable of a single observation on the choice probability of that same observation.

Average indirect effects:

the average over all the observations of the effect of a change on a explanatory variable on the choice probability of the neighbouring observations.

Average total effects:

the sum of direct and indirect impacts.

"SEM"

marginal effects should be interpreted as if it were a standard probit model.

Value

It returns the marginal effects of the estimated ProbitSpatial model.

References

J. LeSage and R.K. Pace. Introduction to Spatial Econometrics, CRC Press, chapter 10.1.6, 2009.


[Package ProbitSpatial version 1.1 Index]