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From | Wolney Conde <wolneyconde@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
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 <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> 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 > > -------------------------- > Maarten L. Buis > Institut fuer Soziologie > Universitaet Tuebingen > Wilhelmstrasse 36 > 72074 Tuebingen > Germany > > http://www.maartenbuis.nl > -------------------------- > > > > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > -- Wolney Conde Department of Nutrition School of Public Health University of Sao Paulo Av. Dr. Arnaldo 715 01246-904 Sao Paulo, Brazil phone: +55-11-30617705 extension 7873 fax: +55-11-30617705 * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/