st: re: factor variables and mim

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Alan said

Factor variables is terrific but ... it seems not to work with mim.

mim is a user-written program published in the Stata Journal. All user- 
written programs must be revised if they are to make use of factor  
variables in their varlists. This was done this week, for instance,  
for -estout- (Ben Jann, on SSC).
Just as programs must include the 'ts' argument in their -syntax  
varlist- statement if they are to use time-series operators in their - 
varlist-, they must now include the -fv- argument in order to use  
factor variables. But they must then parse the factor variables, as  
each factor variable name stands for a list of items (and with  
interactions, perhaps quite a long list of items).
Kit

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