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Re: st: Interaction tests between categorical variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Interaction tests between categorical variables
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Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:49:58 +0100
You are mixing old and new syntax. Choose one or the other. See -help xi-.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Amal Khanolkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to run the following model with an interaction term between two categorical variables; motherland and education. However I get an error message when I change the baseline group of the second categorical variable, education. How do I go about avoiding the problem? (the interaction model runs if I just run it without changing the baseline group of Education).
>
> . xi: regress bviktbs i.motherland*ib2.education sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity i.famsit_new ib5.gestwk_cat6 i.smoke1 i.gestht1 i.gestht2 i.gestht3 i.gestht4 i.gestdt i.MB
>> MI2 mlangd ib6.immigyr_cat if multibirth==1
>
> factor variables and time-series operators not allowed
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