Starting new messages [was: Re: st: What is i. ?]

[Michael Hanson <mshanson@mac.com>]

Grr....

Sorry for the wasted bandwidth on this question: I am catching up on  
a backlog of Statalist messages, and did not notice that this  
question was already answered -- embedded in a completely unrelated  
message thread with the subject "How do I test that two subsample  
have different coefficient of variation?".

Please, for the sake of those of us who have mail readers that  
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accordingly (which seems to exclude certain Microsoft projects),  
follow the advice in the Statalist FAQ:

Start new threads with fresh postings, not replies
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As the FAQ notes, this will also improve the organization of the list  
archive. Thank you.

-- Mike 
On Jul 13, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Michael Hanson wrote:


> On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Solorzano, Jenniffer wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Somebody knows what does it mean "i.variable name"? What does it  
> > mean i.
> > before the name of a variable?. I'm trying to run a instrumental
> > variable regression and I'm trying to understand a do-file  
> > somebody gave
> > me.
> >
> >
> > This is the do-file part:
> >
> > xi: ivreg lagreg3pcpc (lypc = lmiem e0_4 e5_8 e9_12 e13_17 e18_24  
> > e25_54
> > e55_99 ultimoaprjef edadjefe i.region) ultimoaprjef edadjefe if  
> > PPA05==1
> Do you know what the -xi:- prefix command does?  Your question  
> suggests not, and -help xi- is the appropriate action here.  In it  
> you will find a complete description of the i. notation, which will  
> be important for understanding and interpreting the regression you  
> are trying to estimate.
>
> -- Mike
>
>
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