Re: st: Stata 13 wishlist

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Factor variables: tables which include factor variables should use value 
labels (if they exist) to label the factors.

Often, I avoid using factor variables in models because the resulting 
output can be difficult to read. For instance, if -country- is an 
integer variable with labels denoting countries,

 regress y i.country

produces a table with a list of numbers for covariate names instead of 
the corresponding names of the countries. This has to be remapped 
manually back to the labels (right?). So I often generate my own dummies 
on the fly just so I can easily read (and share) the output.

Notably, I have to rerun with factor variables if I want to use 
-margins- afterwards, which indicates perhaps another feature that could 
be added to Stata 13.

cheers,
Jeph






On 1/2/2013 9:25 AM, Airey, David C wrote:
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