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Re: st: peer variable coefficient estimate nonsense
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: peer variable coefficient estimate nonsense
Date
Thu, 1 Mar 2012 07:56:14 +0000
You need to think very carefully how to parameterise this. You don't
give any comment on how far these age variables are correlated. You
might be better off with a different representation, e.g. predictors
of
age, (peer average - age)
Nick
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Jian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was running a OLS regression of student scores on her/her own age
> and his/her peers' average age. The results show that the coefficient
> estimate of the peer average age is much much larger than own age
> estimate. This does not not seem to be plausible as one would believe
> that own age would matter much more than peer average age to own
> scores. any thoughts/comments? looks like whenever adding peer
> characteristics, the regression results does not make sense!
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