---Sami asked:
> I have the following model y continuous , x1 x2 continuous
>
> I do a regression with
>
> reg y cx1 cx2 cx1*cx2
>
> with
> cx1= x1 -mean (x1)
> cx2= x2 -mean (x2)
>
> How to interpret the parameter of cx1*cx2 ?
--- Jason Yackee <[email protected]> wrote:
> the question doesn't seem to have a lot to do with Stata
The Statalist FAQ states that: "The appropriate subjects for discussion
on Statalist are: Stata, and statistics". So this post seems
appropriate te me, in particular since the questions is about
interpreting output from Stata .
> there is a very good and clear discussion of how to interpret
> multiplicative interaction effects (in the context of the political
> science literature) in a recent article by Bill Clark et al,
> available at http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mrg217/interaction.html.
Addiationally Richard Williams has several nice lectures on this
subject which are availabel on:
http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/xsoc593/index.html
HTH,
Maarten
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