Dear prof Hess and Palma,
I am conducting an analysis of solar panel installation in Sweden, and I wish to add the Swedish counties (there are 21 of them) into the analysis, since it might have some heterogeneity between them. Thus, I would like so assess the impact of county on the choice and utility.
Do I need to add all counties as dummies or is there some simpler and more compact way to do this? Since there are so many counties, I am afraid that the amount of parameters will be too many.
Best regards,
Gabrielle
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Including counties as explanatory variables
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Re: Including counties as explanatory variables
Gabrielle
is your data labelled? If so, you could pre-screen it using apollo_choiceAnalysis to see which counties have an impact
Stephane
is your data labelled? If so, you could pre-screen it using apollo_choiceAnalysis to see which counties have an impact
Stephane