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Re: st: Multicollinearity in a fixed effects model
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"Fitzgerald, James" <[email protected]>
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"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Multicollinearity in a fixed effects model
Date
Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:16:13 +0000
Thanks Maarten
On 8 Aug 2012, at 08:38, "Maarten Buis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Fitzgerald, James wrote:
>> My question is, can I "ignore" the effects of multicollinearity given my sample size and the fact that no variables are dropped?
>
> Multicollinearity is not a problem, it is just the phenomenon that you
> loose statistical power when two or more
> explanatory/right-hand-side/independent/x variables are hard to
> distinguish from one another. This is trivially so, and there is
> nothing you need to do as statistical techniques tend to do the right
> thing automatically; that is, the standard error will correctly
> increase as the degree of multicollinearity increases. So there is
> nothing to check.
>
> -- Maarten
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