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Re: st: Log transformation
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Log transformation
Date
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:31:36 +0100
I think you need at least the -exp- option of -adjust-. See its help.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Amy Jennings
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Many thanks for the advice - can I just check that I have substituted the glm command in the right way below? The adjusted means I am getting from the glm model seem different to what I would expect.
>
>
> xi:reg log_ins i.q5_adj age smoke bmi
> adjust age smoke bmi, by (q5_adj) se ci
>
> xi:glm ins i.q5_adj age smoke bmi, link(log)
> adjust age smoke bmi, by (q5_adj) se ci
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Best wishes, Amy
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:20:39 +0100
>> Subject: Re: st: Log transformation
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> Why not start again with -glm, link(log)- which does this for you?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Amy Jennings <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have run a regression model in stata with a continuous outcome, a categorical predictor and a number of covariates using xi:reg followed by the adjust command.
>> >
>> > My continuous outcome measure is log-transformed using the natual log is there any command for back-transforming the adjusted means and confidence intervals to the original units?
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