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Re: st: Breaking a categorical variable into a set of binary variables
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Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Breaking a categorical variable into a set of binary variables
Date
Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:45:24 -0500
-tabulate- might be the command you are thinking of. For example:
sysuse auto, clear
tabulate rep78, gen(repdum)
Best,
Alan
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Miranda Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a Stata v11 user, and I seem to remember coming across a command that
> generates 0/1 variables for each category of a categorical variable, but I
> don't remember what this was...
> Any ideas anyone?
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Miranda
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