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Re: st: interaction variables
From
"Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: interaction variables
Date
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:25:41 -0400
Daniele,
If you have Stata 11, you can just add a term to your regression like
this using factor variables:
reg y x1 x2 i.country##i.time
This will include both country and time dummies as well as their
interaction in your specification. If you just want the interaction,
use only one #.
DVM
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, daniele.curzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata Members, I have to generate interaction variables between a
> country dummy and a time variable!
>
> I have a dataset with 50 countries. So using the tabulate command I get 50
> dummy variables (country1, country2,....country 50). Now I want to multiply
> all these variables for a time variable! In this case I will generate 50 new
> variables!
>
> To do that, I can multiply each country dummy for the time variable.
>
> gen cy1=country1*year
>
> gen cy2=country2*years
>
> ....
>
> gen cy50=country50*years
>
> I was wondering if there exist any command to make this in a faster way!
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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