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RE: st: xtmixed


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: xtmixed
Date   Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:31:39 +0100 (BST)

--- On Thu, 7/10/10, Schoeler, Lisa wrote:
> The ratios are smaller than most other numbers.

I would look at all my variables and choose a 
scaling for each of them such that the units
represent roughly comparable magnitudes. 

Roughly speaking, if you can let all variables
have a range between -10 and 10 or -100 and 100,
then you should be fine. Obviously, this is a
very rough rule of thumb, I would for instance
have no problem if some variable range between
0 and 10, or something like that. This rule of 
thumb is only inteded to give a feeling for the 
maginitude I am thinking about.

-- Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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