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Re: st: peer variable coefficient estimate nonsense
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Jian Zhang <[email protected]>
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Re: st: peer variable coefficient estimate nonsense
Date
Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:01:00 +0800
Nick, thanks for your comment. the correlation between age and peer
average age is quite high, about -0.7
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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