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RE: st: Understanding Factor variables - is order significant ?
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"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Understanding Factor variables - is order significant ?
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Wed, 26 May 2010 09:06:33 -0700
In some programs (SAS in particular), the sums of squares are sequential and the coefficients and p-values will change if the data are not orthogonal. I think Stata does not use the sequential method. Anybody know if this could be related?
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Williams
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: Understanding Factor variables - is order significant ?
At 12:41 AM 5/26/2010, Kieran McCaul wrote:
>....
>
>It's a bug, I believe.
>
>In the example below there are two dichotomous variables, x1 and x2.
>I declare the reference level for x1 to be x1=1 and leave x2 at its
>default, x2=0.
>
>If I fit x2#ib1.x1, all is well and x1=1/x2=0 is recognised as the
>reference level.
>
>If, on the other hand, I fit ib1.x1#x2, x1=1/x2=0 is recognised as the
>reference level and dropped, but x1=0/x2=0 is also dropped.
Thanks Kieran. FYI, if you change the -poisson- commands to
-regress- commands, everything seems to run correctly. So, if it is
a bug (which to me seems extremely likely) it is a very quirky bug
that affects some estimation commands but not others.
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