Setting Explanatory Variable Values for First Differences

This documentation describes the setx1 Zelig 4 compatibility wrapper function. The wrapper is primarily useful for setting fitted values for creating first differences in piped workflows.

setx1(obj, fn = NULL, data = NULL, cond = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

obj	output object from zelig
fn	a list of functions to apply to the data frame
data	a new data frame used to set the values of explanatory variables. If data = NULL (the default), the data frame called in zelig is used
cond	a logical value indicating whether unconditional (default) or conditional (choose cond = TRUE) prediction should be performed. If you choose cond = TRUE, setx1 will coerce fn = NULL and ignore the additional arguments in …. If cond = TRUE and data = NULL, setx1 will prompt you for a data frame.
...	user-defined values of specific variables for overwriting the default values set by the function fn. For example, adding var1 = mean(data\$var1) or x1 = 12 explicitly sets the value of x1 to 12. In addition, you may specify one explanatory variable as a range of values, creating one observation for every unique value in the range of values

Value

The output is returned in a field to the Zelig object. For unconditional prediction, x.out is a model matrix based on the specified values for the explanatory variables. For multiple analyses (i.e., when choosing the by option in zelig, setx1 returns the selected values calculated over the entire data frame. If you wish to calculate values over just one subset of the data frame, the 5th subset for example, you may use: x.out <- setx(z.out[[5]])

See also

The full Zelig manual may be accessed online at http://docs.zeligproject.org/articles/

Examples

library(dplyr) # contains pipe operator %>%
data(turnout)

# plot first differences
zelig(Fertility ~ Education, data = swiss, model = 'ls') %>%
      setx(z4, Education = 10) %>%
      setx1(z4, Education = 30) %>%
      sim() %>%
      plot()
#> How to cite this model in Zelig:
#>   R Core Team. 2007.
#>   ls: Least Squares Regression for Continuous Dependent Variables
#>   in Christine Choirat, Christopher Gandrud, James Honaker, Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Olivia Lau,
#>   "Zelig: Everyone's Statistical Software," http://zeligproject.org/
#> Error in plot.new(): figure margins too large