RE: st: Useful labelling of dummy variables following logit

[Tim Evans <Tim.Evans@wmciu.nhs.uk>]

Thanks again for your input.

Nick, in your last post, are you suggesting an alternative way of presenting things as I'm not sure I follow what you mean by:

' I'd much prefer to work at a graphical display of odds
ratios and confidence limits with variable labels as horizontal text'

If there is another better (in your opinion) way of presenting what I have, then I'd be happy to know.

Best wishes

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 24 August 2011 13:28
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Useful labelling of dummy variables following logit

Although it's a fair way from the question, I will add that if I had
your problem I'd much prefer to work at a graphical display of odds
ratios and confidence limits with variable labels as horizontal text.

Nick

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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