offsets - Centering covariates
From: genxer@earthling.net
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:10:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: offsets - Centering covariates
Hi
Can someone explain (to me) why an expression like:
TVCL=THETA(1)+THETA(2)*(AGE-30) [1]
works better than say
TVCL=THETA(1)+THETA(2)*(AGE) [2]
Thanks for your time.
Joseph