--- S�ren Mayland <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using xtlogit to model a two level (country-individual) model.
> One of my predictores at country level are a level of ethnic
> fragmentation which ranges between 0,2 and about 0,8.
> Basicly what I need is the best way to report my results.
> So far Im settling for odds ratio, but this makes the results of the
> above predictor to complex to report.
> The only solution I have found this far is standardizing the
> variable. (how do I find the standard deviation for my predictor in
> xtlogit Stata?)
The easiest way here is to make the variable range from 0 to 1. That
way odds ratio informs you about the difference between countries with
the highest and lowest amount of ethnic fragmentation. Assume the
variable is called frag, than you would type:
gen frag2 = (frag - .2) / .6
Than when you estimate your model you use frag2 instead of frag.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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