--- Clive Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but don't forget that you need to include _all_ the constituent
> variables along with the interactions in order to obtain both the
> correct parameter values and the p-values, otherwise you assume
> -foreign- and -rep78- to equal 0: and that's almost never the case.
True, though I usually solve that problem by thinking carefully about
what 0 should be in each variable, almost always I want it to be at
least a value that is within the observed range of the variable (and I
failed to do that in my example, sorry). For instance if I interact
with a variable year of birth I usually subtract a number like 1950
from the birthyear variable.
HTH,
Maarten
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