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RE: st: xtmixed
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: xtmixed
Date
Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:31:39 +0100 (BST)
--- On Thu, 7/10/10, Schoeler, Lisa wrote:
> The ratios are smaller than most other numbers.
I would look at all my variables and choose a
scaling for each of them such that the units
represent roughly comparable magnitudes.
Roughly speaking, if you can let all variables
have a range between -10 and 10 or -100 and 100,
then you should be fine. Obviously, this is a
very rough rule of thumb, I would for instance
have no problem if some variable range between
0 and 10, or something like that. This rule of
thumb is only inteded to give a feeling for the
maginitude I am thinking about.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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