To give a short answer to the original question: > On 16 Feb 2018, at 05:02 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > In order to ascribe unique values to the parameters, one must apply a > "constraint". With the "treatment contrasts" the constraint is that > beta_1 = 0.
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