On 6/10/2011 12:23 AM, Barjesh Kochar wrote:
Dear all,
i am doing linear regression with robust error to know the effect of
a (x) variable on (y)other if i execute the command i found positive
trend.
But if i check the effect of number of (x.x1,x2,x3)variables
on same (y)variable then the positive effect shwon by x variable turns
to negative. so plz help me in this situation.
Barjesh Kochar
Research scholar
You don't give any data or provide any code (as the posting guide
requests) , so I have to guess that you
have just rediscovered Simpson's paradox -- that the coefficient of a
variable in a marginal regression can have an opposite sign to that in
a joint model with other predictors. I have no idea what you mean
by 'robust error'.
One remedy is an added-variable plot which will show you the partial
contributions of each predictor in the joint model, as well as whether
there are any influential observations that are driving the estimated
coefficients.
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