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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: on-the-fly indicator at cutpoints of continuous variable |
| Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:56:43 +0000 |
You can do something close to this in -nl-, but you would need to do it differently. Nick On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Hoffman, George <ghoffman@mcw.edu> wrote: > I'd like to model the following: > reg Y c.x1 c.x2 i.x3 > where i.x3 takes on a value of 1 if x3<k, otherwise 0 > > this does not work: > reg Y c.x1 c.x2 i.(x3<k) > > it is simple to create an indicator variable and include that in the regression, but is there a way to include an on-the-fly indicator in commands? > > Apparently this is 'easy' in R. is there an equivalent in Stata? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/