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Re: st: Understanding Factor variables - is order significant ?
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Understanding Factor variables - is order significant ?
Date
Tue, 25 May 2010 22:43:14 -0500
At 09:19 PM 5/25/2010, Michael N. Mitchell wrote:
Dear Richard
I think I need to use my glasses!
Yes, Richard, you are exactly on target. It relates to the use of
-#- instead of -##- .
My previous answer is still true, in the sense that when you do
a#b and b#a, that you get a different reference "cell", and thus it
is re-scrambling the coding.
I agree with everything you say. But, it still isn't clear to me why
it should make a difference whether you use b1.ra#b0.dm versus
b0.dm#b1.ra. Tweaking your example, the following yield identical or
equivalent results for regress but not for poisson:
sysuse auto, clear
generate bigtrunk = trunk > 15
generate biglen = length > 190
regress mpg bigtrunk#biglen
regress mpg b1.bigtrunk#b0.biglen
regress mpg b0.biglen#b1.bigtrunk
poisson mpg bigtrunk#biglen, nolog
poisson mpg b1.bigtrunk#b0.biglen, nolog
poisson mpg b0.biglen#b1.bigtrunk, nolog
Use of ## in the last 2 commands avoids the problem, but why is there
a problem in the first place?
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