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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Fwd: How to interpret regression? |
| Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:35:25 +0200 |
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Joerg Luedicke wrote: > In any case, I find it hard to see why you would include wealth > as a continuous variable and a categorical version of wealth in the > same model. In that case you'll get a step function with a slope, which is not necessarily wrong but often hard to justify. If that appeals to someone, than a linear spline will probably appeal to such a person even more, especially since a linear spline often makes much more sense. See -help mkspline-. -- Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/