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Re: st: Test for significance in Interaction model
From
David Hoaglin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Test for significance in Interaction model
Date
Sun, 3 Jun 2012 13:48:13 -0400
Dear Lukas,
It would help if you told us more about what you mean by "the combined
effect of x2 and x1*x2 for the case of x1=1."
In your simplified model,
b0 is the mean of y for x1 = 0, adjusting for the contribution of x2.
In this model, when x1 = 0, you have the line y = b0 + b2x2, so b0 is
its intercept.
b1 is the difference between the mean of y for x1 = 1 and the mean of
y for x1 = 0, adjusting for the contribution of x2.
b2 is the slope of y against x2 when x1 = 0
b2 + b3 is the slope of y against x2 when x1 = 1.
It is often of interest to test whether b3 = 0 (i.e., whether the
slope of y against x2 is the same for x1 = 1 and x1 = 0) and, if so,
to test whether b2 = 0 and b3 = 0 (i.e., no slope against x2).
David Hoaglin
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Lukas Borkowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am a quite new stata user and I am trying to find a way to check whether the combined effect of my interaction effect is significant.
> My model can be simplified as y = b0 + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x*1x2. x1 is a dummy variable and x2 a variable. I would now like to check whether the combined effect of x2 and x1*x2 for the case of x1=1 is significant. But I am not sure how. I used -test x2 x1*x2- and -testnl _b[x2]*_b[x1*x2] = 0- but I have absolutely no idea if that is correct or not. Could you please help me? Thank you!
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