SOC350H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Recode, Spurious Relationship
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Dummy variable categorical variable coded as 0/1. How to code those with multiple variables. Ols have dep variable that is interval. When it comes to categorical data as indep can do a lot. Categorical variable that have category of 0 as reference dummy. Race/relig not quantitative but can include them in quant analysis. How do you interpret effects of those with multiple categories not just comparing male to female. Understand that you are recoding variable into 0/1 category and omitting referent category. Interpret the category that is 1 in reference to what is called 0. There is no rule that this is 0 and this is 1 (do you wanna say males compared to females or females compared to male) different. Do you want to make white referent category that you compare other races to. Comparison want to be intuitive how do you want to interpret matters. Recode variable so you make referent variable 0.
