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st: RE: How to find out whether a variable is a dummy variable ?


From   "David Harrison" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: How to find out whether a variable is a dummy variable ?
Date   Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:27:20 +0100

By a 'dummy variable' do you mean taking the values 0 or 1 only? If so, you could do this with an -assert- command, e.g.

cap assert inlist(var1,0,1)
if _rc {
	<code for a continuous variable>
}
else {
	<code for a dummy variable>
}

David

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Thomas
Corneli�en
Sent: 02 August 2005 16:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: How to find out whether a variable is a dummy variable ?


Is there a programmer's command to find out whether a variable is a dummy 
variable  ?
I need it because all dummy variables in my program are to be treated 
differently from continuous variables.

Thanks for any comments,
Thomas
[email protected] 

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