Nick Cox wrote:
> In addition, the position of the turning point on the quadratic of Y
> in X1 given X2 and X3 can be derived easily. That may or may not have
> a substantive interpretation.
Good point, using the example I sent earlier, you can find the turning
point and a confidence interval around it by typing:
nlcom -_b[ment]/(2*_b[ment2])
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