--- Viktor Slavtchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I want to estimate production function in logs in order to
> > > interpret the coefficients in terms of elasticities. one of the
> > > RHS variables has a lot of zero value.
--- maarten Buis wrote:
> > I think you are refering to using -glm- with the log link
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I understand it, -glm, link(log)-, although otherwise white magic
> of the best Dumbledore kind, can do nothing to help with zeros in a
> predictor that you want to log.
Good point, I missed the reference to the RHS variables.
-- Maarten
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