Thomas,
You didn't show us your code but from your description it looks like
you would miss dummies where all observations are either 0 or 1.
Friedrich
--- Thomas Corneli�en <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suppose I found a way myself combining
>
> -sum- to check whether the minimum is 0 and the maximum is 1
>
> and
>
> -distinct- (if installed) to check whether there are only two
> distinct
> values.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Corneli�en" <[email protected]>
> To: "statalist" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:24 PM
> 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
> > [email protected]
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