Re: st: Useful labelling of dummy variables following logit

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I guess what I'm after is the labelling of the dummy variables when printed in the output table. I couldn't get dummieslab to work very well on the example using the auto data - I got this error message:
>
> sysuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
> label define newfor 0 "Domestic car" 1 "Foreign (European or Japanese) car"
> label values foreign newfor
> dummieslab foreign
> dummieslab foreign, word(1)
> dummieslab foreign, word(-1)
>
> implied variable names contain duplicates
> r(498);

That makes sense: In the last the last call to -dummieslab, you are
asking the names of the variables to come from the last word of each
value label. In this case that is for each category the word "car".
You cannot create two variables with the same name, so it should exit
with an error, which it does.

> Even after this works, I'm not sure this would follow through to the table.

In the output table you see the names of the variables, as the names
of the variables now somewhat correspond to the value labels, you now
get closer to what you want. It may still look horrible because
variable names may not contain characters like "(" or " " or when the
names are very long. If that is too big a problem for you, than there
is no other option than to create and name the dummy variables
yourself. That way you can fine tune the names to represent the
balance between clarity and length of the name.

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany


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