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Re: st: Constructing a variable from standard deviations
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Constructing a variable from standard deviations
Date
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:55:03 +0000 (GMT)
--- Clive Nicholas wrote:
> on my Stata 9.2, this code choked at
>
> reg mpg weight displacement foreign i.rep78
> i: operator invalid
> r(198);
>
> and at all other parts of the code which feature -i.rep78-
Correct, I used Stata's new factor variable notation. This
is new to Stata 11, so Stata 9 should choke on that. You
can try and prefix the estimation commands with -xi:-. I
haven't tested it but that should get you close to a working
code.
-- 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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