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| From | Alan Neustadtl <alan.neustadtl@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Breaking a categorical variable into a set of binary variables |
| Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:45:24 -0500 |
-tabulate- might be the command you are thinking of. For example: sysuse auto, clear tabulate rep78, gen(repdum) Best, Alan On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello, > I am a Stata v11 user, and I seem to remember coming across a command that > generates 0/1 variables for each category of a categorical variable, but I > don't remember what this was... > Any ideas anyone? > Many thanks and best wishes, > Miranda > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/