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Re: st: Order of variables in stcox model
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Order of variables in stcox model
Date
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:13:05 +0200
--- On Aug 12, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Brigham Whitman wrote:
> My question is: How should I order the variables that I put in the
> model? I get different results depending on how the variables are
> ordered. For example:
>
> xi: stcox velocity roads snow i.season, nohr strata(sex age) robust
>
> will produce different results than:
>
> xi: stcox roads snow velocity i.season, nohr strata(sex age) robust
One reason I can think of is when one or more values are dropped due
to multicolinearity. In that case Stata will have no information it
can use to determine which variable to drop other than the order in
which they are entered.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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