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Re: st: Binary Variables
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Binary Variables
Date
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 18:52:55 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 2/6/10, Natalie Trapp wrote:
> There are no missing data for the regions and I can most
> certainly say that each farm in this dataset has a different
> value for the fertiliser input because it's measured in
> €.
Well, one of your regions is Paris (ile de france), so I
wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any farms there. At least
it should be a weird region, which is not bad if it fell out of
your analysis.
> I also couldn't sort out how to make the "xtreg" command
> work. It gives me the error "not sorted r(5);", even when I
> sorted the data and then typed the "xtreg" command (maybe
> because there are too many variables or maybe because I have
> cross sectional data?!).
The multilevel structure of your data is that farms are nested
in regions.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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