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Re: st: Interaction term with categorical variables and no. of observations stepwise regressions
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Interaction term with categorical variables and no. of observations stepwise regressions
Date
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:01:50 +0200
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Marcel Steinter wrote:
> Do you have an opinion to let the main effects included? Found that there is no conclusiojn across forums.
Leaving the main effects out of a model drastically changes the
interpretation of the results. So if you leave the main effects out
you need to be really careful. See e.g.:
M.L. Buis (2012) "Stata tip 106: With or without reference", The Stata
Journal, 12(1), pp. 162-164.
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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