Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > report. In the Stata output, they report alpha, same as 1/theta from > > the R glm.nb output. Except for minor differences in standard errors, > > only the intercept estimates markedly differ. > > What are the variable codings used? Intercepts depend on coding of > factors, and that applies to any sort of regression.
..and the fact that the difference between the two intercepts equals the gender effect quite strongly suggests that Stata has gender coded 1 for females and 2 for males. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help