Stata The Stata listserver
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date index][Thread index]

Re: st: analysis of multi-site studies


From   Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: analysis of multi-site studies
Date   Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:15:03 -0700 (PDT)

--- Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Your answer to (2) is not correct: the fixed effect
> is equivalent to
> introducing dummy variables only for the linear
> model. For anything
> non-linear, the fixed effect is conditioning on this
> (for the -clogit- > model, you are conditioning on >
the number of 0's and  1's in each
> center), which is some complicated algebra.

Thank you Stas. I though that they were equal if there
was only a single independent categorical variable in
the model.

Then the question remains, am I justified in using
-clogit- and not dummies in this situation? 

Regards,
Ricardo.


=====
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician 
Oklahoma City, OK


		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail 
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/



© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index