--- Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> These two models model something slightly different: if you
> -etransform- a linear regression with a log-transformed dependent
> variable you get for dummy variables the difference in geometric
> means (Newson 2003), while if you look at a dummy variable with
> a non-transformed dependent variable you get the difference in
> arithmatic means.
I have used slightly confusing terminology: more correct would be to
say that you will get the ratio of geometric means.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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