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Re: st: playing with coefficients
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: playing with coefficients
Date
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:30:08 +0200
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Baum wrote:
>> Occupation takes the values from 1 to 7, therefore by using
>> i.occupation I get 7 coefs. i.fem is instead a dummy variable (fem==1
>> if female, 0 otherwise). The use of both i.occupation and i.fem
>> therefore gives me the coefs for female. How do I get the one for male
>> (fem==0)?
>
> The -margins- command can calculate all of these conditional means for you if you use i., c. and # or ## in specifying the equation.
An alternative (and equivalent) solution is discussed in:
M.L. Buis (forthcoming) "Stata tip 106: With or without reference",
The Stata Journal, 12(1).
<http://www.maartenbuis.nl/publications/ref_cat.html>
Hope this helps,
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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