Re: st: Trend Regression Coefficients of Ordinal Predictor

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

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Billy

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On Jan 14, 2013, at 21:45, karmantandon <karmantandon@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am fitting a regression model with a normally distributed outcome (y) 
> and an ordinal variable in 4 levels (x) as predictor, along with other
> variables (a, b), using the command
> 
> regress y i.x a b
> 
> I get separate coefficients for the levels of the predictor x while the
> first level is treated as reference. I would like to demonstrate that the
> coefficients of the ordinal variable levels are trending in a certain
> direction with the variable itself. Is there a way to demonstrate this? 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
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