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Re: st: standardized beta for quantile regression


From   "JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: standardized beta for quantile regression
Date   Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:57:54 -0400

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Vasan Kandaswamy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I did a quartile regression of various predictors and outcome variables. Now I would like to estimate the relative strength of the various predictors within this model using standardized beta.

<snip>

> Kindly tell me how to estimate standardized beta in a quantile regression?
> Sugggestions of any sort will be of great help.

It's hardly surprising that adding beta as an option doesn't work as
-qreg- doesn't have such an option. See the help or the dialog box.
(IMO the dialog boxes are the first line of defense help feature. I've
been using Stata heavily for four versions and still like it as a
refresher/quick summary about what options exist for a given
procedure.)

When a Stata procedure does't have a feature it is often (but not
always) a sign that the feature is dubious for the procedure in
question. I'm not entirely sure it standardized betas even makes sense
for quantile regression, but you can always standardize all the
variables and rerun the quantile regression, though the interpretation
won't really line up the same the way it does in linear regression, I
don't think.
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