--- On Tue, 8/9/09, Dorothy Bridges wrote:
> But what I don't understand is: the second method
> (using mfx, eyex) gives me a different value than
> the first method (storing the coefficient on x
> from *regress lny lnx*). Why?
Does x or y contain values that are 0 or less? In
that case you are creating missing values by
creating lnx and/or lny.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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