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Re: st: time in xtmixed
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: time in xtmixed
Date
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:44:29 +0100
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:06 AM, megan rossi wrote:
> Can anyone advise me on whether I need to include time variable as a categorical variable (ie. have a prefix i.) in xtmixed or can it be treated as a continous variable even though the data was collected at only three time points (evenly spaced). My research question: is depvar associated with indepvar independent of time i
Both syntaxes are legal, and both models can be useful. Which one is
better in your case really depends on how you think time influences
your dependent variable.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
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