Re: st: regressing on percentages.

[Daniel Schneider <daniel.schneider@stanford.edu>]

This is an interesting question.

You might want to look at:

Michael Tomz, Joshua A. Tucker and Jason Wittenberg (2002): An Easy and 
Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data; Political 
Analysis, 10:1

However, their log-transformation does create some interesting issue 
that I am still trying to figure out...

Daniel

Ricardo Ovaldia wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I think that this question was previously asked on the
> list, but I could not find it in the archives.
>
> I have data from cases and controls. The data consists
> of percentages of various cell types for each
> individual. The percentages sum to 100 for each
> person. I want to compare the two distributions (cases
> and controls) while adjusting for subject's
> characteristics.
>
> Is there an appropriate model in Stata to do this?
>
> Thank you, 
> Ricardo  
> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> Statistician 
> Oklahoma City, OK
>
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