Try either -desmat- or -xi3-, both will let you use the deviation
contrast
--- [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Consider the usual OLS regression in which two dummies reperesnent
> a
> three-category categorical independent variable:
>
> lny = a + b1x1 + b2x2 + b3x3 + e
>
> where:
>
> lny = log of dep var
>
> x1 = dummy 1
>
> x2 = dummy 2
>
> x3 = continious control variable
>
> In the ususal framework, the coefficients b1 and b2 are the
> differene in
> percentages (roughly) between the categories in the regression and
> the
> omitted category (i.e. the constant).
>
> Instead, following Kennedy (1986), I want to get how all three
> categories
> deviate from the overall mean of lny. That is, this procedure
> allows for
> the estimation of all three dummies, and not just two.
>
> Has anyone written a semi-canned procedure for this in Stata?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Christer
>
> Christer Thrane, dr.polit.
> Associate Professor, Sociology
> Department of Social Science
> Lillehammer University College
> 2626 Lillehammer, Norway
> + 47 61 28 81 70 (fax)
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> E-mail, home: [email protected]
>
>
> Kennedy, P. (1986): Interpreting Dummy Variables. The Review of
> Economics
> and Statistics. 68, 174-175.
>
>
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