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| From | Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: comparing nested models |
| Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:09:37 +0000 |
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> wrote: > > Most would assume log wages are a quadratic or higher order polynomial > function of age without much theoretical justification (google "Mincer > wage equation" for discussion), Not being an economist I've no appreciation for the distribution of wages. > but note that age is categorical in > every dataset already... Though I suppose it could be measured with > millisecond precision as of Stata 10. In which case there are no continuous variables, ever, just increasingly finer graded categories! Neil -- “Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.” - Konrad Lorenz Email - nshephard@gmail.com Website - http://kimura.no-ip.org/ Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/