Thanks Maarten. I ran the regressions with both RHS and LHS
untransformed using both OLS and GLM with link(log). With the OLS the
coeff on X is 0.006 while with the GLM the coefficient is 0.700. I
find a bit hard to intepret the GLM coefficient. Maybe I
mistintepreted what you meant?
If you have any other hints, I would appreciate it.
Erasmo
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 13/2/10, Erasmo Giambona wrote:
>> Assuming I want to use the log specification, can I still
>> compute economic significance?
>>
>> That is, in the example, could I say that a 1 IQR change in
>> X (i.e., 0.85) is approximately associated with a 0.008*
>> 0.85=0.0068 change in Y?
>
> No, the problem is that by first transforming the dependent
> variable you are no longer modeling the average in y but the
> average in log(y). If you want to study your effects in terms
> of the original unit of y you'll have to use -glm- with the
> -link(log) option rather than use -regress- with the
> transformed dependent variable.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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