Re: st: standardized beta coef

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:09 PM 5/3/2006, Alexander Nervedi wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to get standardized beta coefficients. When requesting 
> beta estimates the beta for the constant goes missing, even though 
> the unstandardized regression constant (the intercept) is being 
> estimated by reg.
>
> I was wondering what may lead to a missing standardized beta for the 
> intercept when the regression is calcualtingthe un-standaridized 
> beta. Any thoughts would be useful
>
> thanks
>
> Alex.
The standardized beta for the intercept is zero.  It isn't really 
"missing," it is just that it is always zero so it isn't reported.


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