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Re: st: Treat zeros in logarithms


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Treat zeros in logarithms
Date   Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:11:45 +0100 (BST)

--- "Mentzakis, Emmanouil" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an interval regression model and for some cases the lower
> bound is zero. As I want to take the logarithm of the bounds I run
> into problems.

You do not run into problems: The lower bound will be missing, which
corresponds in case of -intreg- to minus infinity: which is exactly
what you want.

-- Maarten


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