computing and posting predicted values from qcount

[Lisa Kuramoto]

Hi,

I ran qcount and noticed that the qcount.ado program does not compute predicted values, "qcount_p". How can I modify qcount.ado to compute and post the predicted values?

Thank you.

[Lisa Kuramoto]

Correction to question: Where can I find qcount_p.ado?

[Oded Mcdossi]

qcount is a user written program and not Stata build in program so as of FAQ you should tell us about it before. Browsing the help file of qcount it seems that there is no predict option. However you might try stata predict command (type help predict). There is command for predicted margins qcount_mfx, however you should be aware that this program been created in 2005 on older versions of Stata. mfx command is superseded by margins. I don't use this command nor these models but maybe in newer versions of Stata you can fit quantile regression models with count data with Stata's built in commands. Try contacting the authors of this program.

Generally you can find ado files in the PLUS directory, type sysdir in the command window to see the full path of this directory in your computer. If you just want to view the ado file and not edit (which is something you should be very cautions anyway) just type in the command window viewsource "qcount.ado".

[Lisa Kuramoto]

Thank you very much for your valuable advice.

We have contacted the authors of qcount.

Thank you also for the general advice on viewing ado files and etiquette on posting questions to this forum.