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Re: st: question about ordering of independent variable entry during testing


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: question about ordering of independent variable entry during testing
Date   Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:11:48 +0000 (GMT)

--- Ian C Zink <[email protected]> wrote:
>   My question regards the entry/order of listing of independent 
> variables in a variety of statistical tests (MANOVA, ANOVA, GLMs, 
> regressions).  Is there any difference in the order in which I place 
> predictor variables into the model, or does stata simply read all 
> entered variables as equal? 

All predictor variables are treated equally regardless of the order in
which you entered them in the model.

-- Maarten


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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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