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st: How to constraint the sum of the coefficients to zero for a factor variable.
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Sam Brilleman <[email protected]>
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st: How to constraint the sum of the coefficients to zero for a factor variable.
Date
Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:28:20 +0100
Dear Statalisters,
I have a GLM regression of the form:
glm outcome var1 var2 i.var3 i.var4, link(log) fam(gamma) eform
where the factor variable 'var4' has 20 levels.
Does anyone know how to change the constraint on the coefficients for
'var4' so that the sum of the coefficients is zero (i.e. sum(b4i) = 0)
rather than treating one of the factor levels as a reference category (i.e.
b4i = 0 for some given i). Note that the latter is the standard parameter
constraint used by STATA's estimation commands.
I assume the -constraint- command does this, but if it is possible I can't
seem to work out what the syntax would look like.
Many thanks,
Sam.
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