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Re: st: Panel Regression with missing x for one entity
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Panel Regression with missing x for one entity
Date
Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:22:54 +0200
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Whelan, Paul wrote:
>> I'm running a panel regression with a cross-section of countries:
>
> y_it = c_it + beta_1 x_1 + ... + beta_n x_n + eps_it
>
> For one of my countries , a particular x is completely missing.
> The estimation works fine but I cannot produce predictions for this particular entity.
You (through Stata) create the prediction by just filling in the
equation you gave above. A missing value just mean you don't know the
value. What would be the outcome of: beta_1*"an unknown value"? Stata
correctly answers: "an unknown value".
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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