Thanks Austin Nichols,
I understand why the vars are dropped and i am not complaining that
Stata does this. My question (and sorry for not making this clearer)
is how Stata decides which variables are dropped.
The problem is clear in the case of collinear Xs (one the colinear
ones must be dropped), but if there are more Xs than obs, it is
unclear to me how Stata determines which vars are dropped and which to
keep. Or is there a rationale to proceed?
Thanks. Tom
On 3/12/07, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
Tom Boonen --
The problem is one of less than full rank, similar to a regression
including collinear RHS variables, so there is an infinite set of
possible solutions.
See
help _rmcoll, help _rmdcoll
for a related utility that handles collinear RHS variables,
and note you cannot see the source code for these or -regress-.
For more on Stata's approach, see
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-03/msg00273.html
On 3/12/07, Tom Boonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> if i run regress with more covariates than observations, some
> covariates will be dropped. How does Stata decide which variables are
> dropped. I could not infer this from the source code.
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