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st: Re: question about ordering of independent variable entry during testing


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: question about ordering of independent variable entry during testing
Date   Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:12:06 +0100

Order does not matter once you have specified your dependent var in, say, -regress-. When Stata must allocate your input to different sets of covariates, as in -heckman-, the syntax diagram makes that clear in the help file. But within a varlist, order should not matter. If you are in doubt about that, try it on a simple example and see whether the results differ...

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian C Zink" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: st: question about ordering of independent variable entry during testing


Hello statalisters,
My question regards the entry/order of listing of independent variables in a variety of statistical tests (MANOVA, ANOVA, GLMs, regressions). Is there any difference in the order in which I place predictor variables into the model, or does stata simply read all entered variables as equal? Thank you,
Ian

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