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From | Laurie Molina <molinalaurie@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Decomposition of coefficient, two groups |
Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:34:52 -0500 |
Dear Stata list, Consider a population divided in two groups: group 1 and group 2. By appending group 1 and group 2, we get the entire sample, which corresponds to the entire population. Im interest in the effect of an explanatory variable X on the outcome variable Y. When considering the entire population, X has a significant and high effect on Y (coefficient has value of 0.61 and there are 3.7 million observations). When considering only group 1, X has a significant and very high effect on Y (coefficient has value of 1.4 and there are 1 million observations). When considering only group 2, X has a significant and low effect on Y (coefficient has value of .42 and there are 2.7 million observations).. The effect of X on Y, is statistically different between group 1 and group 2. The coefficients by group are estimated introducing dummies for group 1 and group 2 respectively, as well as interaction terms for all explanatory variables. I'm interesting in finding "what fraction of the variation in Y associated with X, is explained by being a member of group 1". Is there any "coefficient decomposition" that I can perform in stata to answer such a question? All suggestions and comments are very much appreciated. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/