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re:re:st: Is there a way to center factor variables
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Christopher Baum <[email protected]>
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re:re:st: Is there a way to center factor variables
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Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:49:01 -0500
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Sorry, bit of incoherence in last posting. Sentence should read
As described in section 7.1.1 of IMEUS (p. 164-165), you can create such a set of time dummies by subtracting the excluded one from each of the included ones, and using those (T-1) transformed dummies (which take on values of +1, 0, -1) in the xtreg, fe model.
Kit
Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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