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Re: st: Troubleshooting comparison of means across groups
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William Buchanan <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Troubleshooting comparison of means across groups
Date
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:20:50 -0700
Kerry,
How many levels is your grouping variable? Can you send the exact syntax that resulted in the error message? If you're using any of the factor variable operators, that would be the reason and you should resubmit the command without any of those operators.
HTH,
Billy
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On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:12, "Kerry MacQuarrie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to run t tests to compare means of some (continuous) variables
> across groups. However, I'm running in to some puzzling error messages.
>
> If I run the code ttest varname by(groupvar), I get: "factor variables and
> time-series operators not allowed". Any ideas on where to start looking to
> troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Kerry
>
>
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