I wasn't in my office the last couple of days so I could not commend on
this. As originator of the confusion let me add that the term -ia2- in
Kit Baum's solution is formed by the standardized (and therefore
centered) constituent variables -shead- and -slength-. You would not
have gotten the same solution if you had used the raw values of the
constituent variables for forming the interaction term, i.e.
. sysuse auto, clear
. gen ia1 = mpg*length
. reg mpg headroom length ia1, beta
is not equal to
. egen shead = std(headroom)
. egen slength = std(length)
. gen ia2 = shead*slength
. reg mpg headroom length ia2, beta
But the latter is equal to
. egen smpg = std(mpg)
. egen sia2 = std(ia2)
. reg smpg sheadroom slength sia2, beta
(In this last command you will see that the estimated coefficients and
the standardized coefficients are the same)
Uli
Am Dienstag, den 21.04.2009, 18:10 +0200 schrieb
[email protected]:
> I got different results first, but trying it again gave me the same results.
> According to the book "Data analysis with stata" from Kohler and
> Kreuter, you are not supposed to use
> reg mpg headroom length ia2, beta
> you are supposed to use
> reg smpg shead slength sia2
> for interaction effects, but if I get the same beta coefficients, why
> is it wrong to use reg mpg headroom length ia2, beta? That confuses me
> a little.
>
>
> Zitat von Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>
> > <>
> >
> >
> > How do you mean that? The example that Kit provided gives the same results?
> > Did you get something else for your special dataset?
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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> > [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von
> > [email protected]
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. April 2009 16:10
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: re: AW: st: AW: beta coefficients for interaction terms
> >
> > I tried it out and got different figures for the beta coefficient.
> > Thats why I asked that question.
> > It should give me the same figures, right?
> >
> > Zitat von Christopher Baum <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> <>
> >> Why don't you just try it out?
> >>
> >> sysuse auto, clear
> >> egen shead = std(headroom)
> >> egen slength = std(length)
> >> egen smpg = std(mpg)
> >> gen ia2 = shead*slength
> >> egen sia2 = std(ia2)
> >> reg smpg shead slength sia2
> >> reg mpg headroom length ia2, beta
> >>
> >> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin |
> >> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> >> An Introduction to Stata Programming |
> >> http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
> >> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata |
> >> http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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