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Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Grouping income variables- RECODE COMMAND
Date
Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:58:33 +0100
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Antonio Rodriguez Andres wrote:
> Following your advice, I did inspect the correlation matrix.
As we said before: the correlation is not the problem, the missing
values are the problem.
>Even I take out the income variable from
> The regression I got the same message because other variable have missing values that are dropped after fitting the proposed model
>
> xtmixed dprt age age2 gender married separated divorced widowed eduyrs ichldhm md ihealth iuemp5yr iue
>> mp12m rgdp06[pw=dweight] if md==0 || cntry: gender , mle
> note: md omitted because of collinearity
> (29900 missing values generated)
You may have taken out the income variable, but you replaced it by a
selection on md == 0, so in your analysis sample the variable md is
still a constant...
But I will repeat again and again and again: Do not do this.
-- Maarten
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