IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s459562.html

MRGTBL2: Stata module to provide a margin-based approach to table 2 from a regression

Author

Listed:
  • Niels Henrik Bruun

    (Aalborg University Hospital)

Programming Language

Abstract

The output from the mrgtbl2 command is based on margins from the regression model: outcome = constant + i.exposure[#i.by1][#i.by2] + adjustment variables. The user specifies the regression method as one of regress, cnsreg, mixed, glm, poisson, nbreg, logit, probit, cloglog, binreg, meprobit, melogit, mepoisson, menbreg, meglm, or mecloglog Margins calculates metrics, such as linear predictions, probabilities, or risk differences, based on a fitted model's response over a dataset where some or all covariates are fixed at specific values. Margins answers the question: "What does my model have to say about such-and-such scenario?" The scenario in mrgtbl2 is the standard table 2, including confounding by the option adjustments and stratification by the options by1 and by2. There is a conceptual and numerical relationship between the margins command and the Mantel–Haenszel method, as both tools are used to adjust for confounding factors and provide comparable estimates across stratified groups. In the absence of adjustments and stratifications, the output table is applicable for reporting in RCTs.

Suggested Citation

  • Niels Henrik Bruun, 2026. "MRGTBL2: Stata module to provide a margin-based approach to table 2 from a regression," Statistical Software Components S459562, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 11 Jan 2026.
  • Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s459562
    Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install mrgtbl2". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/m/mrgtbl2.ado
    File Function: program code
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/m/mrgtbl2.sthlp
    File Function: help file
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s459562. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/debocus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.