st: RE: Regress with variables in logs, but no data in logs

["Maarten Buis" <M.Buis@fsw.vu.nl>]

--- Dragutin Culinovic wrote:
> I have non-logs data but in model variables are in logs. How to set
> regress command to make estimation of variables (in logs).

Say your variables are called y and x. Than you type:
gen lny = ln(y)
gen lnx = ln(x)
regress lny lnx

hope this helps,
Maarten

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