Re: st: control a variable in stata

[Nora Reich <nhmreich@googlemail.com>]

Andy, by the way, what is the value of the R2? It gives you a hint on
how much of the variation in salary can be explained by your model. I
would improve the model with new variables (as proposed earlier) and
see which ones have a significant effect and which ones lead to
substantial increases in R2.

Nora



Am 21. April 2012 21:33 schrieb Nora Reich <nhmreich@googlemail.com>:
> As far as I know, -poisson- is for skewed distributions, and salary
> distribution in general often fulfills this requirement, but salary of
> NBA players might show a different distribution. The distribution can
> be checked, e.g. with the command
>
> -histogram salary-
>
> (for more information type -help histogram-).
>
> Andy, I would compare the assumptions and requirements of different
> estimation strategies (OLS, poisson) and find out which fits better
> with the data.
>
> I would also check which estimations strategies are used by similar
> papers, and why.
>
> Apart from -poisson- and -regress-, I cannot think of any at the
> moment that have to be considered for your salary-estimations.
> However, if there was something like a "minimum wage" for NBA players,
> i.e. salary is censored,  -tobit- would be an alternative.
>
> Best regards
> Nora
>
>
>
>
> --
> Nora Reich
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> Publications:
> http://www.nora-reich.de/publikationen.html
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