Re: st: Useful labelling of dummy variables following logit

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> I'm running a logistic regression analysis (logit) in Stata11.2and capturing the output in a log file to which I intend to refer to even when not using Stata. However, the dummy variables in the table output is not user friendly in that I need to be looking at Stata to decode the dummy variables and I wanted to know whether there was a way to get Stata to label up the dummy variables? I'm using the following command:
>
> xi: logit Early1  i.eth2 age i.invsurg i.region i.dep if dep!=9 & sex==2, or

If you are not going to use post-estimation commands like -margins-
than I would just create the dummies myself, that way I have complete
control over how they are named. This is what I used to do in Stata <
11, I hardly ever used -xi-.

If you want to use post-estimation commands like -margins-, I would
leave out -xi- but otherwise leave the command unchanged thus using
the factor variable notation, see -help fvvarlist-. The output will be
a bit clearer, but it will still not contain labels. You could use
-label list- below your regression to add a "legend" below your
output.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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