Tell Me about those Pesky CLASS Variables, Part 1: GLM and Reference Coding

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While many analysts understand how to interpret the parameter estimates from linear regression with continuous input variables, they may feel less comfortable with parameter estimates from models with categorical inputs. SAS modeling procedures (such as PROC REG and others) need numerical information to represent all inputs—including classification variables. Suppose we […]

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