Re: st: Is there a way to use or emulate the behaviour of --predict-- with --by-- groups?

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Aaron Kirkman wrote:
> I have data grouped by a variable called --group--, in this example,
> and I'm trying to use logarithmic interpolation on another variable.
> Linear interpolation using the --ipolate-- command works perfectly in
> --by-- group <snip> Unfortunately, this does not work with logarithmic
> interpolation and --regress--/--predict--.

You can avoid the -by:- prefix by adding interactions to your linear
regression model:

*---------- begin example ----------
clear
quietly input str1 group x y
A 1 1000
A 2 .
A 3 3000
A 4 .
B 5 45
B 6 .
B 9 20
end

encode group, gen(groupnum)
gen lx = ln(x)

reg y i.groupnum##c.lx

predict y_loginterp, xb
*----------- end example -----------

Notice that the observation A 4 is not strictly speaking an
interpolation but an extrapolation. You'll want to be more careful in
those situations.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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