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Why don't you just try it out?
sysuse auto, clear
egen shead = std(headroom)
egen slength = std(length)
egen smpg = std(mpg)
gen ia2 = shead*slength
egen sia2 = std(ia2)
reg smpg shead slength sia2
reg mpg headroom length ia2, beta
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