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Re: st: Labelling of categorical variables in regression outputs
From
daniel klein <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Labelling of categorical variables in regression outputs
Date
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:54:19 +0200
Amal,
-xi- is the predecessor of Stata's factor variable notation introduced
in Stata 11. The problem here is, that neither -xi- nor factor
variables may have labels attached (yet). You need to work around
this, creating the dummies yourself.
Here is one way, using Nick Cox's -labvarch-, part of his -labutil-
package, available from SSC (type -ssc inst labutil-).
ta motherland ,g(moth_)
labvarch moth_* ,aft(==)
regress wt_gain moth_* malder if multibirth==2
This approach assumes there are no other variables in your dataset
having names that begin with moth_.
Best
Daniel
--
[...]
I labelled my exposure variable as follows:
label variable motherland "mother's country of birth"
label define motherland 1 "Sweden" 2 "Western Europe + NA" 3 "Finland"
4 "Eastern Europe" 5 "Poland" 6 "F. Yugoslavia" 7 "Arab league" 8
"Iraq" 9 "Lebanon" 10 "Somalia" 11 "Syria" 12 "Turkey" 13 "Iran" 14
"South Asia" 15 "Ethiopia+Eritrea" 16 "East asia" 17 "Latin America"
18 "Chile" 19 "Africa"
label values motherland motherland
[...]
eststo xi: regress wt_gain i.motherland malder if multibirth==2
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