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Re: st: Re:Grouping data/Probability Transition Matrix


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re:Grouping data/Probability Transition Matrix
Date   Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:15:06 +0100

Good.

Two minor points:

1. Excising the previous exchange excises context for many readers who
might be interested in this.

2. I stress again that "categorical dummy" is widely considered a
misuse of terms when it refers to a nominal variable with more than 2
classes.

Nick

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM, tunmise jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Nick,
>
> Followed your suggestion and it did work. I also got better results
> with the  -xttrans- command.
>
> I did not get appropriate results previously  with -xttrans- because I
> was treating the variable as a dummy rather than a categorical dummy.
>

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