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Re: st: RE: to suppress non significant coefficient
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Richard Williams <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: to suppress non significant coefficient
Date
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:25:12 -0500
At 11:01 AM 10/4/2011, Jörg Eulenberger wrote:
A good point. Thanks for your suggestion.
Jörg
Am 04.10.2011 15:28, schrieb Nick Cox:
> Even if you feel it makes sense, how do you
know all your readers will agree?
I agree that dropping insignificant coefficients
is a dubious idea. Having said that, esttab does
have a drop option that lets you manually specify
coefficients to drop. I think the drop option
makes more sense when, say, you are suppressing
all the coefficients for the control variables,
as is apparently the custom in some fields.
In general, I would say that if you don't think
the insignificant coefficients should be shown,
then you ought to re-estimate the model with
those variables dropped. Otherwise your results can be misleading.
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