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Re: st: specify base year for interacted factor variable.


From   Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: specify base year for interacted factor variable.
Date   Fri, 18 May 2012 07:41:07 +1000

Another option is to use -fvset- to set the base level; then you don't need to type the "b1999" for any subsequent models including year:

fvset base 1999 year
xtreg i.year##c.x, i(id) fe

Phil

On 18/05/2012, at 6:30 AM, Brendan Halpin wrote:

> On Thu, May 17 2012, Daifeng He wrote:
> 
>> . xtreg y   ib1999.year#c.x  i.year,  i(id) fe
> 
> Does the problem also arise with 
> 
> . xtreg y   ib1999.year#c.x  ib1999.year,  i(id) fe
> 
> or (perhaps you have a reason for not including the first order effect
> of x)
> 
> . xtreg y   ib1999.year##c.x,  i(id) fe
> 
> 
> Brendan
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