Johannes Habel
2009-Mar-02 18:41 UTC
[R] Problem with dummy variables controlling for years
Hello everybody, I'm running a panel regression with dummy variables controlling for years. While this works fine for most of my models, in some cases I get the error message "In sqrt(diag(object$vcov)) : NaNs wurden erzeugt" and missing results for some or all of my year dummies: Estimate Std. Error z-value Pr(>|z|) year2000 -7.48e-02 NA NA NA year2001 -6.65e-02 NA NA NA year2002 -6.61e-02 NA NA NA year2003 -6.49e-02 NA NA NA year2004 -5.95e-02 NA NA NA year2005 -6.08e-02 NA NA NA Despite this inconsistency, the other variables as well as my R-quared look alright. Can anybody explain me what the reason for this problem is and how it affects the regression? Are the results still usable in spite of the NaNs? Thank you very much! Best, Johannes -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-dummy-variables-controlling-for-years-tp22294013p22294013.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Johannes. My guess is that you will get no Std. Error, if you have only 1 observation for that year. Could that be the case ? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Johannes Habel <johannes.habel@gmx.de>wrote:> > Hello everybody, > > I'm running a panel regression with dummy variables controlling for years. > While this works fine for most of my models, in some cases I get the error > message "In sqrt(diag(object$vcov)) : NaNs wurden erzeugt" and missing > results for some or all of my year dummies: > > Estimate Std. Error z-value Pr(>|z|) > year2000 -7.48e-02 NA NA NA > year2001 -6.65e-02 NA NA NA > year2002 -6.61e-02 NA NA NA > year2003 -6.49e-02 NA NA NA > year2004 -5.95e-02 NA NA NA > year2005 -6.08e-02 NA NA NA > > Despite this inconsistency, the other variables as well as my R-quared look > alright. > > Can anybody explain me what the reason for this problem is and how it > affects the regression? Are the results still usable in spite of the NaNs? > > Thank you very much! > > Best, > Johannes > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-dummy-variables-controlling-for-years-tp22294013p22294013.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: www.talgalili.com www.biostatistics.co.il [[alternative HTML version deleted]]