Kit Baum wrote:
> It is useful to note that a binary variable of this sort is the
> intersection of the sets defined by each dummy. Intersection of sets
> in binary arithmetic is done by multiplying, or with the AND operator
> (&). The union of sets -- true if either is true -- is done with the
> OR operator (|). Stata does not contain an exclusive OR operator
> (XOR), but one can readily be fashioned by adding the dummies:
>
> gen xor12 = cond(dum1+dum2==1, 1, 0)
Thanks a lot for this - I'll try this out as well.
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