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Re: st: Prediction at the 'mean' of a categorical- xi3?
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Re: st: Prediction at the 'mean' of a categorical- xi3?
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Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:13:43 -0400
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:07 AM, David Hoaglin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I think of Jay's suggestion as equivalent to taking a mixture of the 6
> categories as the basis for the centering. In that mixture, the weight
> for each category would be its proportion in your data or in a
> relevant population. Approached in that way, the contribution to the
> constant term should not be too difficult to interpret.
Yes, that's what I meant.
Jay
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