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Re: st: xi and i. command
From
Wolney Conde <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: xi and i. command
Date
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:07:26 -0200
Thanks, Maarten. Probably I was deaf then...
Wolney
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:59, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 23/11/10, Wolney Conde wrote:
>> recently I did a mistake using <xi> to create
>> indicator variable and found an unknown [for me
>> at least] performance in Stata. I type <i.variable>
>> without prefix <xi:> and have same results as when
>> I type <xi:command var1 i.var2>.
>
> StataCorp made a lot of noice about that when they
> introduced Stata 11. This is what they call the
> factor variable notation, see: -help factor variable-.
>
> -- Maarten
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Wolney Conde
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