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Re: st: Bug in margins
From
Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Bug in margins
Date
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:53:32 -0500
On Aug 30, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> The requirement that the original model be specified including "i." is also buried deep in the PDF documentation for -margins- (page 1063 of r.pdf).
Actually, the very first line displayed by -help margins- is
margins [marginlist] ...
where marginlist is a list of factor variables or interactions that
appear in the current estimation results.
A pedant might argue that this should read "a list of factor variables or *their* interactions," but regardless, the information *is* accessible.
That said, the fact that so many ask this question does perhaps suggest that a more prominent note be added to the documentation and/or that the error message in this case be changed to "only factor variables and their interactions are allowed," which is the error message you would have gotten if you had typed
margins c.lapscopiintent
-- Phil
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