I am happy that any Stata Journal columns of mine are useful, but that
really wasn't the point I was making. Dichotomising continuous variables
throws away information. Usually that's a bad, or at least a dubious,
idea.
Nick
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Pancho Villa
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Nick Cox<[email protected]> wrote:
> That aside, the mechanics of how to do this have been thoroughly
> ventilated, but its meaning has not been.
Yes, I'm reading the column on *for*, which seems like written with me
in mind. I'm one of those who've postponed learning about macros,
etc.
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