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Re: st: Categorical variable in regression
From
John Ataguba <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Categorical variable in regression
Date
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:06:55 +0000 (GMT)
Dear Maarten
Thank you very much for the brilliant suggestions!
You're a star!
Regards
Jon
>________________________________
> From: Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 15:37
>Subject: Re: st: Categorical variable in regression
>
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM, John Ataguba wrote:
>> Note that I have suppressed the constant term in my regression - xi: reg y i.region, noconst noomit -. In that case there is no problem of the dummy trap. Based on Stata's documentation, the regression model I have specified is expected to run. Unfortunately, it is not running for me.
>
>It is best to avoid the -xi:- prefix if you can; the current way of
>handeling categorical variables are as factor variables, see: -help
>fvvarlist-. So what you want is : -reg y ibn.region, noconst-. There
>are a number of examples in this Stata tip: M.L. Buis (2012) "Stata
>tip 106: With or without reference", The Stata Journal, 12(1), pp.
>162-164.
>
>If you really need to use the -xi:- prefix (e.g. you are using -qreg-
>instead of -reg-) than the -noomit- option should be part of the -xi:-
>prefix not -regress-, so: -xi, noomit: reg y i.region, nocons-
>
>-- Maarten
>
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