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Re: st: Some help on coding the categorical variable
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prakash singh <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Some help on coding the categorical variable
Date
Fri, 13 May 2011 09:46:06 +0530
Thanks Nick for your comment.
Prakash
On 5/11/11, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> This depends on what your "analysis" is, which is completely
> unspecified. If you wish to produce equations with your categorical
> variables included, then the second coding may produce equations that
> are simpler to interpret, but for most purposes I see little practical
> difference here.
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:12 AM, prakash singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In my analysis I am having few categorical variables where the code
>> for the categorical variable is: 1 for increase, 2 for no change and 3
>> for decrease. Now I need suggestion that whether I should change the
>> code to -1 for decrease 0 for no change and 1 for increase or I should
>> go ahead with same coding for the empirical exercise.
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