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Re: st:the disadvantage of using -xi- to create indicators for categorical variables
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st:the disadvantage of using -xi- to create indicators for categorical variables
Date
Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:35:47 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 16/12/10, Amanda Fu wrote:
> I am curious: can some one here share how you decide to
> decide to use -xi- or not to run a regression with lot
> of categorical variables interactions?
I only used -xi- for a preliminary analysis when I was in
a hurry. Otherwise I prefered to create my own dummies
and interactions. Now I am slowly warming to Stata's new
factor variable notation, see: -help factor variable-,
and I see no use for -xi- at all.
--maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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