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Re: st: RE: Areg, absorb
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Areg, absorb
Date
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:52:41 +0100
So identifier is "country1 country2" and time variable "year"? Well,
then -group(country1 country2 year)- will define a distinct (and
unique) value for each observation, which is far too many dummies.
Nick
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:48 PM, emanuele mazzini
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Exactly country1 country2 and year.
>
> 2011/4/11 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
>> Everything depends on whether you want dummies for _combinations_ of
>> -country1-, -country2- and -year-.
>>
>> What precisely defines a panel?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:30 PM, emanuele mazzini
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried that but doesn't really work. Curiously, Stata reports
>>> insufficient observations. That's kind of strange, however.
>>>
>>> 2011/4/11 Jan Bryla <[email protected]>:
>>>> Would it not be possible for you to first generate group id's based on country1 country2 and year, and then use -areg- to control for each group? I think that would capture the desired effects.
>>>>
>>>> In that case it would be something like:
>>>>
>>>> Egen id=group(country1 country2 year)
>>>> Areg ..., abs(id)
>>>>
>>>> /Jan Bryla
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of emanuele mazzini
>>>> Sent: 11. april 2011 13:33
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: st: Areg, absorb
>>>>
>>>> Dear all Stata users,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to work out a regression with panel data in which I have
>>>> to control for country1, country2 and year.
>>>> I tried to ran a regression after creating a dummy for all three of
>>>> them and obviously in the result Stata reports the estimates of all
>>>> the dummies I created which I do not want to show in the output of the
>>>> regression. I tried to get the same result with the command: areg...,
>>>> absorb(varname) but the point is that areg does not allow me to
>>>> include more than one variable, and in this case I would need three.
>>>> Hence, my brief question is: is there a way to include in the
>>>> regression the fixed effects for country1, country2 and year without
>>>> Stata showing all the coefficients of the dummies I create?
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