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Expanded on implications of transformation of IVs.
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Interpreting the coefficient of a log-transformed variables is reasonably straightforward: it represents the predicted change in the dependent variable for a 1-log-unit change in the independent variable.

Here, the dependent variable (in the default log-link for the quasipoisson family in glm) is $log(y)$. After the transformations of the variables $x_1$ through $x_3$, they are no longer the independent variables for the regression. The regression coefficients need to be interpreted in terms of the new independent variables $log(1+x_1)$ through $log(1+x_3)$.

So for the relation of $x_1$ to $y$, with the other independent variables held constant, you have a change of 1 log unit in $(1+x_1)$ corresponding to a change of 0.76 in $log(y)$. That pesky 1 in $log(1+x_1)$ makes is hard to provide a more general direct relation between $x_1$ itself and $y$.

Interpreting the coefficient of a log-transformed variables is reasonably straightforward: it represents the predicted change in the dependent variable for a 1-log-unit change in the independent variable.

Here, the dependent variable (in the default log-link for the quasipoisson family in glm) is $log(y)$. So for the relation of $x_1$ to $y$, with the other independent variables held constant, you have a change of 1 log unit in $(1+x_1)$ corresponding to a change of 0.76 in $log(y)$. That pesky 1 in $log(1+x_1)$ makes is hard to provide a more general direct relation between $x_1$ itself and $y$.

Interpreting the coefficient of a log-transformed variables is reasonably straightforward: it represents the predicted change in the dependent variable for a 1-log-unit change in the independent variable.

Here, the dependent variable (in the default log-link for the quasipoisson family in glm) is $log(y)$. After the transformations of the variables $x_1$ through $x_3$, they are no longer the independent variables for the regression. The regression coefficients need to be interpreted in terms of the new independent variables $log(1+x_1)$ through $log(1+x_3)$.

So for the relation of $x_1$ to $y$, with the other independent variables held constant, you have a change of 1 log unit in $(1+x_1)$ corresponding to a change of 0.76 in $log(y)$. That pesky 1 in $log(1+x_1)$ makes is hard to provide a more general direct relation between $x_1$ itself and $y$.

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EdM
  • 101.6k
  • 11
  • 102
  • 303

Interpreting the coefficient of a log-transformed variables is reasonably straightforward: it represents the predicted change in the dependent variable for a 1-log-unit change in the independent variable.

Here, the dependent variable (in the default log-link for the quasipoisson family in glm) is $log(y)$. So for the relation of $x_1$ to $y$, with the other independent variables held constant, you have a change of 1 log unit in $(1+x_1)$ corresponding to a change of 0.76 in $log(y)$. That pesky 1 in $log(1+x_1)$ makes is hard to provide a more general direct relation between $x_1$ itself and $y$.