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Re: st:the disadvantage of using -xi- to create indicators for categorical variables


From   Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st:the disadvantage of using -xi- to create indicators for categorical variables
Date   Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:18:20 -0500

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That default behavior can be changed. See "Summary of controlling the omitted dummy" in the -help- for -xi-. But factor variables offer many more options for choosing the reference category.


Steve
[email protected]

On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Laura R. wrote:

As far as I know, with -xi- the reference category is chosen
automatically, wich might be a disadvantage.

Laura

2010/12/17 Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
--- On Thu, 16/12/10, Amanda Fu wrote:
I am curious: can some one here share how you decide to
decide to use -xi- or not to run a regression with lot
of categorical variables interactions?

I only used -xi- for a preliminary analysis when I was in
a hurry. Otherwise I prefered to create my own dummies
and interactions. Now I am slowly warming to Stata's new
factor variable notation, see: -help factor variable-,
and I see no use for -xi- at all.

--maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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