As I understand it, -glm, link(log)-, although otherwise white magic of
the best Dumbledore kind, can do nothing to help with zeros in a
predictor that you want to log.
Nick
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Maarten buis
--- Viktor Slavtchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to estimate production function in logs in order to interpret
> the coefficients in terms of elasticities. one of the RHS variables
> has a lot of zero value. in such cases, some people usually add a
> very small value in order to avoid the problem of 'undefined' log of
> zero. a similar issue was discussed some time ago among other things
> and in a quite different context but an interesting alternative
> suggestion was made (which I can't remember anymore). unfortunately,
> I was not able to find this particular thread.
I think you are refering to using -glm- with the log link, like in the
example below.
*----------- begin example ----------------
sysuse nlsw88, clear
/* create some zeros */
recode grade 0/11 = 0
gen lnage = ln(age)
xi: glm grade lnage i.race south, link(log)
*----------- end example ------------------
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