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Re: st: Including constant?
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Including constant?
Date
Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:15:02 -0500
At 12:31 AM 6/2/2011, Nils Braakmann wrote:
Interesting to learn about these disciplinary differences. In
economics the most common thing nowadays seems to be to only report
coefficients/results for your main variable of interest, omit results
for control variables, constants etc. and just mention that these
were included somewhere in the text/a table footnote.
Cheers,
Nils
I am not crazy about that but yes, especially if you have a zillion
variables, I can see doing it that way. I would hope that the
complete results are available upon request. One problem with such an
approach is that it might obscure the fact that the variables of
interest have pretty small effects compared to everything else. It
might also hide suspicious results that could call the rest of the
findings into question.
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