This question is a bit hard to understand since it appears to miss some
lines, but if you have trouble dealing with a string variable, than you
can make it numeric with the -encode- command.
Hope this helps
--- somsupa Nopprach <[email protected]> wrote:
> same parent firms in repeated investments. At first, i
> thought to create id number of investment from the
> same parent company. and then run conditonal logit by
> using option" group(id of the same parent firms)".
>
> However, some parent firms also invest only one time.
> so, if i just sort parent company name, the
> investment that didnot have repeated or no second
> investment decision still include in the sample data.
> but I dont know how to sort and create id because the
> parent company name are string variables.
>
> If you know the method, could you kindly answer my
> suggestions.
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> yours sincerely,
> somsupa
>
>
>
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