Re: st: joint significance of categorical var

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Constantin Alba wrote:
> i am trying to find a way to calculate joint significance of
> categorical variable in case when there are many categories.
>
> one way i know  is to use "test" command and enter all categories manually e.g.
> if variable type has 3 categories then i use:
>
> test 1.type 2.type 3.type
>
>
> but what if i have few such categorical variables and there are much
> more categories. how i can avoid manual entry of all of them?

*------------ begin example ------------
sysuse auto
reg price i.rep78 i.foreign c.weight##c.weight
_ms_extract_varlist i.rep78 i.foreign
test `r(varlist)'
*------------- end example -------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
<http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq> )

Hope this helps,
Maarten
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