--- "Daniel O. Koralek" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now, what I would like to do is simply control for a single screen
> variable that equals the number of screens that occurred up to the
> analysis time. THe examples that I have seen using stsplit seem to
> only use a single change (in this scenario, up to a certain point
> screen =0 and after screen = 1), not where multiple changes can
> occur.
If a single change occurs than you create a dummy after -stsplit-, if
you have multiple changes you add multiple dummies, or if you
hypothesis a linear effect, a single continuous variable. In all these
cases -stsplit- doesn't know or cares which scenario applies, it works
in exactly the same way.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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