Re: st: What is the effect of centering on marginal effects?

[John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch>]

Hi Kit:

Oops...I don't know what I was thinking there about the VIFs. In any 
case, as the two papers below show, the regression models are equivalent 
whether centering or not, and so are the marginal effects  (of the FULL 
model).

Best,
J.
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On 03.08.2012 14:41, Christopher Baum wrote:
> <>
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 2:33 AM, John wrote:
>
>> I don't believe you are using the right vif.  Should it not be the
>> - -uncentered- option in vif for both regressions below? In this 
case the
>> vifs are the same.
>
> Agreed, centering in VIF matters (my colleague David B. always 
recommends normalizing each column of X to unit length)
> but that does not cause the VIFs to be equal:
>
> . estat vif, uncentered
>
>     Variable |       VIF       1/VIF
> -------------+----------------------
>       length |   1598.70    0.000626
>       weight |   1493.44    0.000670
>     c.length#|
>     c.weight |   1347.44    0.000742
>    intercept |   1180.62    0.000847
> -------------+----------------------
>     Mean VIF |   1405.05
>
>
>
> . estat vif, uncentered
>
>     Variable |       VIF       1/VIF
> -------------+----------------------
>     c_length |      9.71    0.102969
>     c_weight |      9.75    0.102591
>   c.c_length#|
>   c.c_weight |      1.94    0.516267
>    intercept |      1.91    0.522829
> -------------+----------------------
>     Mean VIF |      5.83
>
> Thanks for the references.
>
> Kit
>
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