I think the names of these things vary by field and I don't know the term
you're using. But it sounds like you're talking about the analytical
approximation. What Clarify will do is to calculate this exactly, without
the approximation. They'll probably be close, but to the extent that they
differ, Clarify's should be better.
Gary
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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, mganz wrote:
Hello,
First let me thank you for a very nice piece of software. My question has to
do with retransforming a logged dependent variable to the original scale. How
do the results from Clarify compare to retranforming using the smearing
estimate (with or without bootstrapping to get the standard error)?
Thanks,
Michael
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