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From | Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | re:re:st: Is there a way to center factor variables |
Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:49:01 -0500 |
<> Sorry, bit of incoherence in last posting. Sentence should read As described in section 7.1.1 of IMEUS (p. 164-165), you can create such a set of time dummies by subtracting the excluded one from each of the included ones, and using those (T-1) transformed dummies (which take on values of +1, 0, -1) in the xtreg, fe model. Kit Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html * * 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/