st: RE: Continuous vs discrete variables.

[adiallo5@worldbank.org]

Maarten wrote:


                                                                                 
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
 > Amadou:                                                                       
 > If your discrete variable is consists of zeros and                            
 > ones, than you usually don't have to. If one                                  
 > variable distinguishes between more than two                                  
 > groups, than you can use -xi- prefix.                                         
                                                                                 
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Dear Maarten,

Thanks for answering. Actually, I am not in a regression or summarizing context.
I have a huge dataset and would like, among other things, to know which
variables
are dummies, which are categorical (more than two but countable modalities),
which
are discrete type (1,2,3,...) and which are continuous. I want to place each
group in
local macros for future use.
Cheers.
Amadou.


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