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| From | Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: interpretation of squared term |
| Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:28:51 +0000 (GMT) |
--- On Thu, 26/8/10, David Bai <db555@mail.com> wrote:
> I have a question regarding how to interpret squared
> term:
You can only interpret the time trend graphically. If you
want to have a non-linear trend where you can interpret
the coeficients, you can look at a linear spline, see
-help mkspline-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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