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Re: st: How to subdivide a variable
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to subdivide a variable
Date
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:29:38 +0200
Say your model is a linear regression with variables y x1 and x2, then
you would type:
reg y x1 x2 if inrange(income,10000, 20000)
or
reg y x1 x2 if income >=10000 & income <= 20000
I tend to make less mistakes with the first method, so I prefer that one.
hope this helps,
Maarten
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Asad Mushtaq <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> hope you all are fine. I have a variable named income. its minimum
> value is 10k and maximum 100k. now i want to subdivide this income
> variable so that inc1 = 10k-20k, inc2=20k-40k, inc3=40-70k and
> inc4=>70k. when i use egen command (egen incomecut=(cut income) at
> (20,40,70) etc, though it divide the variable, but i dont know how to
> use only a specific range to use in regression. for example what
> should i do if i want to check the effect of only income range 10k-20k
> in my model. Thanks
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