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Re: st: test for trend of an ordinal predictor
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: test for trend of an ordinal predictor
Date
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:44:36 -0400
it is not exactly clear what you want here, but you may find the
-cascade- program helpful; you can find this using -findit cascade-; the
original stb article for this can be found at
www.stata.com/products/stb/journals/stb6.html
Rich
On 4/26/10 8:31 AM, Georgia wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am fitting a regression model with a normally distributed outcome (y)
> and an ordinal variable in 3 levels (x) as predictor. Obviously, when I
> use the command
>
> xi: regress y i.x
>
> I get separate coefficients for the second and the third level of the
> predictor while the first level is treated as reference. However, I
> would be very interested in testing the trend of the ordinal variable.
> In such a case, do I simply treat my ordinal var as a continuous one by
> typing
>
> regress y x
>
> or is there a better way to test the trend of x? I would appreciate any
> help on this.
>
> Georgia
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