--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have outcomes (such as length of stay or costs) that are
> not normally distributed, so I'm including the log
> transformed (now normal) variables as the outcome measures
> in linear regression models. But I'm not really sure how to interpret
> the resulting co-efficients.
There has been a long thread on this issue recently on Statalist, starting here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-11/msg00076.html
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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