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Re: st: Multicollinearity and Time Trends
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"Justina Fischer" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Multicollinearity and Time Trends
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Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:47:45 +0200
Hi Marten,
I thought similarly....
So the best way of indeitfying these three different trends in the same model would be to start the time trend with a minus sign, letting it cross the zero-line.
I'll keep this in kind for my own research....
Thanks
Justina
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:35:44 +0200
> Von: Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Multicollinearity and Time Trends
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Stefan Pichler wrote:
> > I want to detrend time series data and allow not only for linear trends,
> but also for quadratic and cubic trends. Here is a minimalistic example of
> the data:
> >
> > Y...outcome variable (some randomly typed numbers)
> > year....the year of the observation
> > gen year2=year^2
> > gen year3=year^3
> >
> > gen year1=year-1950 (so that year starts from 1)
> > gen year12=year1^2
> > gen year13=year1^3
>
> > If I tell Stata: "reg Y year year2 year3", Stata omits
> year because of collinearity, however if I regress "Y year1
> year12 year13" no variable is omitted.
>
> Think of this this way: Stata can distinguish between year12 and year1
> because they are non-linearly related. This non-linearity is greatest
> near 0 (the minimum of the parabola). However, if you get further and
> further away from 0, it becomes almost linear.
>
> Consider these three graphs:
>
> twoway function y = x^2, range(1951 1960)
> twoway function y = x^2, range(1 10)
> twoway function y = x^2, range(-4.5 4.5)
>
> In the last graph it is easiest to distinguish x from its square. This
> is true for us when we look at the graph, but also for computers.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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>
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World Trade Institute
University of Bern
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