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Re: st: AW: panel data analysis
From
Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
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Re: st: AW: panel data analysis
Date
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:20:09 +0000
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Danielle
>> Koopmans
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Juni 2010 12:41
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: st: panel data analysis
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> it's my first time here and I have some questions. I have a dataset
>> with variables of 32 firms over a timespan of 10 years, I am examing
>> whether tenure (of a specific person) and other variables has
>> influence on the profitability (y) of firm i.
>> First I have a question about the xi command because I have some
>> categorical variables: I wanted to create dummies for the variable
>> years xi i . years and for education xi i . education, I tried this
>> command but nothing happenend, not even a note that I did something
>> wrong.
Unless you have a specific reason to there is no need to generate
dummy variables, you can instead list them as factor variables when
specifying your models. Stata will generate dummy variables in the
background. See -man factor variables- for more information.
Neil
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