Quoting Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>:
> > I am using the xi: command to construct dummy variables from
> categorical
> > variables. My problem is that I would like the xi-command to
> not remove one
> > of the dummies but I cannot in the manual find a command
> that turns this
> > characteric off. Is it possible to keep all the dummy
> variables, or have I
> > for the first time in my life found a limitation in a Stata
> command?
>
> If you consider this as a limitation, the answer is yes, I
> think so. But if
> you only dealing with dummies you can use the gen()-option of
> the -tabulate-
> command instead. For example the command
>
> .. tab v1, gen(v1d)
>
> produces dummies v1d1, v1d2, ... v1dk for the categorical
> variable v1. This
> is faster than -xi- and allows more control over variable
> names.
>
> .. quietly tab v1, gen(v1d)
>
> supresses the output, if you don't want to see it. With
>
> foreach var of varlist v1-v100 {
> quietly tab `var', gen(`var'd)
> }
>
> you produce dummies for variable lists.
>
>
> regards
> uli
>
I just want to add that I've run into this problem too, and I too
consider it a (rare) limitation. More than once I've wanted to run a
regression with explicit dummies for each category in combination
with the -nocons- option, and without an ugly hack not worth
repeating here (Uli's suggestion is *much* nicer) it isn't possible
with -xi-'s dummies.
Cheers,
Mark
Prof. Mark Schaffer
Director, CERT
Department of Economics, School of Management
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
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