Re: st: Is there a way to use or emulate the behaviour of --predict-- with --by-- groups?

[Aaron Kirkman <ak1795mailserv@gmail.com>]

Hi Nick,

Just to clarify (for my benefit), do you mean using --ipolate-- on the
log(y) and log(x) variables then exponentiating the new values of
log(y)?

Aaron

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you think of interpolating the logs and then exponentiating?
>
> Regression of any flavour can't interpolate unless all the residuals
> are zero; it can only smooth. If that's what you want, fine, but it is
> not like -ipolate-.
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Aaron Kirkman <ak1795mailserv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Maarten. The interaction term does exactly what I need. Once
>> I added --set matsize 3000-- to my actual data set, the interpolation
>> works well.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Aaron Kirkman wrote:
>>>> I have data grouped by a variable called --group--, in this example,
>>>> and I'm trying to use logarithmic interpolation on another variable.
>>>> Linear interpolation using the --ipolate-- command works perfectly in
>>>> --by-- group <snip> Unfortunately, this does not work with logarithmic
>>>> interpolation and --regress--/--predict--.
>>>
>>> You can avoid the -by:- prefix by adding interactions to your linear
>>> regression model:
>>>
>>> *---------- begin example ----------
>>> clear
>>> quietly input str1 group x y
>>> A 1 1000
>>> A 2 .
>>> A 3 3000
>>> A 4 .
>>> B 5 45
>>> B 6 .
>>> B 9 20
>>> end
>>>
>>> encode group, gen(groupnum)
>>> gen lx = ln(x)
>>>
>>> reg y i.groupnum##c.lx
>>>
>>> predict y_loginterp, xb
>>> *----------- end example -----------
>>>
>>> Notice that the observation A 4 is not strictly speaking an
>>> interpolation but an extrapolation. You'll want to be more careful in
>>> those situations.
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