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

[Ian C Zink <izink@rsmas.miami.edu>]

Thank you Maarten.
Ian
Maarten buis wrote:
> --- Ian C Zink <izink@rsmas.miami.edu> 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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