st: RE: How to find out whether a variable is a dummy variable ?

["David Harrison" <david.harrison@icnarc.org>]

By a 'dummy variable' do you mean taking the values 0 or 1 only? If so, you could do this with an -assert- command, e.g.

cap assert inlist(var1,0,1)
if _rc {
	<code for a continuous variable>
}
else {
	<code for a dummy variable>
}

David

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Thomas
Corneli�en
Sent: 02 August 2005 16:24
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: How to find out whether a variable is a dummy variable ?


Is there a programmer's command to find out whether a variable is a dummy 
variable  ?
I need it because all dummy variables in my program are to be treated 
differently from continuous variables.

Thanks for any comments,
Thomas
cornelissen@mbox.iqw.uni-hannover.de 

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