Re: st: Re: Contrasts and interpretation

["Jaye Brown" <jaye.brown@hotmail.co.uk>]

Many thanks for that. I have jsut moved from SAS to Stata and I guess that I 
am making elementary mistakes. I will also look at the other posts you refer 
to in the archives.
Jaye



> From: Joseph Coveney <jcoveney@bigplanet.com>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: Statalist <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: st: Re: Contrasts and interpretation
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:34:50 +0900
>
> I wrote:
> . . . Try typing -anova ,
> egress-.  -anova- typically drops the highest level of a factor (just like
> SAS's PROC GLM and PROC ANOVA), unless you change it with -char
> varname[omit] #-.
>
> . . . -anova , regress- or -anova , symbolic-
> would be informative for that, too.   . . .
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That would be -anova , regress-, not -anova , egress-.  And it's -test ,
> symbolic- (after -anova-), not -anova , symbolic-.
>
> Also, it doesn't look as if -char varname[omit]- affects dummy variable
> creation other than that done by -xi-.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
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