Ricardo Ovaldia
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> It is unfoutunate (and strange) that -anova- does not
> accept string variables as factors. String variables
> first need to be -encoded-. This is okay, except that
> -anova,regress- does not display the value lables from
> -encode- so unless you keep track of how the variable
> was encoded one can not interpret the output. Is there
> a way to display the output displaying the value
> labels?
I agree with you largely. The generic difficulty
is that -anova, regress- will show not any
value labels, even truncated, and I don't
know a work-around.
FWIW, that code has been in Stata a very
long time. That may help explain -- but
not justify -- the state of affairs.
Nick
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