and to avoid the dummy variable trap you should use the noconstant
option on the regression.
If there are too many dummy variables to create easily you could use xi
as a command in itself rather than a command prefix and then just
compute the omitted dummy yourself.
so
xi i.varname to create a list of n-1 dummies and then create the last
dummy in the normal manner
then
reg y x dummies, noconstant
Daniel Muller wrote:
>
> that'll do it:
>
> gen a = (var==1) if var ~=.
> gen b = (var==2) if var ~=.
> gen c = (var==3) if var ~=.
> gen d = (var==4) if var ~=.
>
> etc.
>
> Daniel
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