Re: st: Generating dummies with xi

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

If you don't care about interaction terms, use -tab-

 . tab myvar, gen(myvar_)

will generate variables myvar_1-myvar_n, one dummy for
each value of -myvar-.

cheers,
Jeph


On 4/11/2011 8:34 AM, emanuele mazzini wrote:
> Dear all Stata users,
> I just discovered the command xi to generate dummies, but I also
> noticed that by default it omits one of the values. This is obvious on
> one hand, but on the other hand, does anyone of you knows a way to
> tell Stata to generate dummies for all groups and to omit none of
> them?
>
> Thank to all of you in advance,
> Regards,
> Emanuele.
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