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AW: st: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
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AW: st: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
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Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:05:50 +0200
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" Stata 11 users are encouraged officially to use factor variables"
Walter may have a point, though, if all he wants is to use -xi- as a
standalone command, to generate dummies for a categorical variable. -tab,
gen()- may be an alternative.
HTH
Martin
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Betreff: Re: st: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
I don't know what exactly is going on in your case. However, I do know
that Stata 11 users are encouraged officially to use factor variables
instead of -xi-, although -xi- should still work (and has done so for me
so far).
Best wishes
Roger
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On 02/06/2010 13:47, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> I have a problem with the "xi" command in Stata 11 (completely updated
> as of today). I tried to create a dataset as simple as possible to
> reproduce the problem, which can be accessed from my server. In the
> dataset there is a single variable called COUNTRY with numeric codes
> for each country and labels identifying the country.
>
> There are 12 different values for COUNTRY (12 different countries) and
> 79155 observations with a variable number of observations for each
country.
> To reproduce:
>
> webuse set http://puna.upf.edu
> webuse data/data.dta
> xi i.COUNTRY
>
> Stata creates variables _ICOUNTRY_n as it should, where n are the
> different codes for the 12 countries, omitting the country with the
> smallest code.
>
> The problem is that some of the values of _ICOUNTRY are 0 when they
> shouldn't be, for instance I have cases where _ICOUNTRY_56 = 0 but
> COUNTRY = 56. This happens randomly for a few cases and I've looked at
> it from all angles but couldn't figure out what is going on.
>
> If I reduce the number of variables or the number of observations the
> problem disappears at some point, can't tell exactly when, so I'm
> providing the smallest example I could build.
>
> Walter
>
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