Re: st: Estimating SEM with Dummy

[Theophilus Dapel <dapelzg82@gmail.com>]

Dear John,
I applied the option you gave, thanks.

But I got an error message: initial values not feasible
On 30 Mar 2014, at 17:07, John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> In terms of controls, that is, right hand side variables. Just do as you would normally:
> 
> xi: sem (y <- x z i.dummy)
> 
> Stata will generate k-1 dummies for you, like with other estimators.
> 
> Best,
> J.
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> On 30.03.2014 16:38, Theophilus Dapel wrote:
>> Dear User of Stata,
>> Any assistance on how to estimate a SEM with dummies in the list of control variables?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dapel
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