Re: st: Handling 0 values when using logs of a dependent variable

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

why do you want to take the log of the outcome variable?

possibly you can use glm with a log link to get around this problem

Rich

Dana Chandler wrote:
> I would like to run a regression of a given variable's log on another
> set of variables. How should I handle the 0 values?
>
> I have searched for an answer and saw some people say that "you cannot
> run a regression with logs on values of zero... those values should be
> considered 'missing' in the regression." Another suggestion was to
> replace the 0s with 1s.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dana
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