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Re: st: playing with coefficients
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Chiara Mussida <[email protected]>
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Re: st: playing with coefficients
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Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:26:57 +0100
ok,
therefore if I already have a dummy and I want to use it in my
independent variables set, e.g. child (=1 for the presence of child, 0
otherwise), I put in my
reg of lwage, do I use i.child?
On 23/03/2012, Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 10:08 AM 3/23/2012, Chiara Mussida wrote:
>>I got it: for categorical variable c.namevariable, and for dummy
>>variables? or continuous variable?
>
> c.var means var is continuous; i.var means var is categorical and
> Stata will, in effect, make dummy variables out of it.
>
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