Re: st: scaling

[Michael Foster <mike4kids@gmail.com>]

yes, that would be fine. 
If you log Y, that may have conceptual implications that you may not want. 
Generally speaking, it's desirable to have your explanatory variables on 
roughly the same scale.
So you might not want to scale Y as much as scale the X's and scale them 
by different amounts.

/michael

Renuka Metcalfe wrote:

> Dear Statalisters
>
> I am using a cross-section data. I am looking at the
> impact of "x" on "Y", runing an OLS. I ran something
> like
>
> .regress Y x1, x2, x3
>
> Some of my coefficients are very large. For example,
> 648.
> I cannot log the dependent variable, since some of the
> some workplaces had minus "Y".
>
> I guess I could divide "Y" by 1000. But I not certain
> if this would be correct.
>  
> I would be grateful, if anyone would let me know, how
> I could scale these coefficients so that they are a
> lot smaller. 
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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