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Re: st: Troubleshooting comparison of means across groups


From   William Buchanan <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Troubleshooting comparison of means across groups
Date   Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:20:50 -0700

Kerry,

How many levels is your grouping variable?  Can you send the exact syntax that resulted in the error message? If you're using any of the factor variable operators, that would be the reason and you should resubmit the command without any of those operators.

HTH,
Billy

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On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:12, "Kerry MacQuarrie" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to run t tests to compare means of some (continuous) variables
> across groups.  However, I'm running in to some puzzling error messages.
> 
> If I run the code ttest varname by(groupvar), I get: "factor variables and
> time-series operators not allowed".  Any ideas on where to start looking to
> troubleshoot this?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Kerry
> 
>  
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> Kerry MacQuarrie
> NSF Fellow and CSDE Trainee
> Sociology Department
> University of Washington
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