On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Athinagoras Konstantinidis
<athikons@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my logit regression all of my coefficients are significant under
> the 10% s.l. However, the constant term has a p-value of about 0.600.
> The regression without it has equally good t statistics as before for
> the rest variables.
>
> Can I permanently remove it from my regression/model with the
> "noconst" option or is it considered a bad thing?
You hardly ever interpret the constant unless it's been scaled to be
interpretable. It just represents the baseline probability of an event
in the given population when the other X variables are equal to 0 and
you should probably control for it. Unless you have created a
meaningful scaling for the X variables what the constant's value is is
arbitrary. Beyond that, it is highly unlikely that you intend to fit a
model with it equal to 0 a priori, so the fact that it is in a
statistical sense is just one of those things.
Jay
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