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Re: st: New command -tfv- available from SSC
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: New command -tfv- available from SSC
Date
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:26:44 -0400
daniel klein <[email protected]>:
And then computes marginal effects in terms of the untransformed
variable? With interactions? I assume that is what people want, not a
command that takes the log on the fly.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:42 AM, daniel klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks as always to Kit Baum, a new prefix-like command -tfv- is now
> available from the SSC.
>
> The command lets you specify transformations of variables in the line
> of the obsolete -xi- prefix (superseded by factor variable notation).
> For example
>
> . tfv regress t(ln).price mpg
>
> creates a new variable, ln_price, as the natural logarithm of price
> and runs the -regress-ion of this new variable on mpg.
>
> -tfv- is inspired by a wishlist for Stata 14 recently posted to
> Statalist (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2014-02/msg00697.html).
>
> I am confident that StataCorp will make the command obsolete expanding
> the existing factor variable notation soon. Until then, I hope some
> will find it useful.
>
> Best
> Daniel
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