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Re: st: mean centering


From   Jvverkuilen <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: mean centering
Date   Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:01:48 -0500

Yes, from what I recall from scientific computing, the QR decomposition solves the numerical problems. It effectively centers and orthogonalizes the variables. 

Centering is really about interpretation now. 

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JVerkuilen, PhD

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On Jan 20, 2013, at 18:46, "Airey, David C" <[email protected]> wrote:

> .
> 
>> Yes, and it's not bad practice most of the time. 
> 
> I picked up in a recent discussion that mean centering used to be a remedy for computational problems related to collinearity, like when you square or cube continuous variables to allow nonlinearity in regression models. However, modern methods like Q-R decomposition makes this an unnecessary concern and today mean centering helps with interpretation only if that.
> 
> Anyone agree with this?
> 
> -Dave
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