Re: st: playing with coefficients

[Joerg Luedicke <joerg.luedicke@gmail.com>]

For binary variables it actually won't matter which operator you
choose, but using the operator -i.- for them makes life easier when
you subsequently want to use -margins- (at least as of Stata 11.2
which I still use; don't know if something has changed with Stata 12).

J.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok,
> therefore if I already have a dummy and I want to use it in my
> independent variables set, e.g. child (=1 for the presence of child, 0
> otherwise), I put in my
> reg of lwage, do I use i.child?
>
> On 23/03/2012, Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At 10:08 AM 3/23/2012, Chiara Mussida wrote:
>>>I got it: for categorical variable c.namevariable, and for dummy
>>>variables? or continuous variable?
>>
>> c.var means var is continuous; i.var means var is categorical and
>> Stata will, in effect, make dummy variables out of it.
>>
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