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Re: st: Binary Variables
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Binary Variables
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Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:26:35 -0400
In addition to Neil's suggestions:
• show us the commands that created the regional indicators.
Do the omitted regions change, or is it just the four that you mentioned?
If the same four:
• tab -region- against the indicators for just those four regions.
• -sum-- your predictors & outcome for those four regions.
• run the regression with just the four "problem" regions
• try the -nocons- option on the regression restricted to the four
Steve
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Neil Shephard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Natalie Trapp <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> I use Stata 11 and do a normal OLS estimation (with the "reg" command):
>>
>> y = dependent variable (agricultural inputs)
>> x = independent variables (climate variables, crops, etc.) and dummy
>> variables that represent the 150 regions within the EU
>>
>
> This is _not_ showing what you are typing, if you are using -regress-
> then I would expect you to have included something along the lines
> of....
>
> regress agricultural_inputs temperature crops i.region
>
>> The coefficients of the dependent variable within each region are very
>> divers and significant for about 120 regions.
>>
>>
>> My Problem is for instance, when "Schleswig Holstein" is my reference
>> group, Stata adittionally omits Valle d'Aoste, Vlaanderen and Ile de France.
>
> Could it be that there is missing data within your data structure such
> that most observations for these regions are omitted and the few that
> remain all have the same value of "agricultural_inputs".
>
>
>> Still, I don't quite understand why Stata does it, because the regions
>> (Germany, France, Netherlands) do not seem to be similar to me.
>
> "Seems" is a vague term and is based on your subjective interpretation
> of what you are expecting, and it need not be because you have the
> data, you can look at it. Check the patterns of missing data that
> exist and how these pan out within the regions, in particular those
> that are being omitted.
>
> Stata will be omitting them for a reason (and it will often indicate
> why a particular category has been dropped).
>
> So again, pasting the _exact_ command you are entering and the
> resulting output would be very informative to other list members. You
> can copy and paste from the Results window directly into an email.
>
> Neil
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