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STATA(12) Dummy Variables and Interaction Expansion (xi)

Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: //www.amara.org/en/v/BhE0/ How to run ordinal variables in STATA? How to interact with other ...

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junchen feng commented on 16 Apr 2013

Yes, that is a good point. For discrete variable that takes more than 2 values, it can be ordered, which I learned to call it ordinal variable, and not ordered, which I learned to call it as categorical variable. Now, if you use them as covariates, it does not matter since they will all be a bunch of binary variables at the end of the day, so I use them interchangeably. That is playing fast and loose and you are absolutely correct that I should be more precise in my terminology.

junchen feng commented on 08 Oct 2012

Depends on how you want to deal with missing variable in general. If you want to discard them, then nothing needs to be done, which is convenient but usually wrong. Otherwise, it will involve quite complicated procedure to handle missing observations correctly.

Mike Packard commented on 07 Dec 2012

How would you interact more than two variables. Say for example I wanted to run a fully interacted regression with 4 categorical variables, how does the syntax change to fully interact all four variables?

junchen feng commented on 09 Nov 2012

Sorry for the late reply. I don't think you can graph a dummy variable, it only occupies two values so the graph will looks like two bars... On that note, maybe try bar chart of box chart with two groups

Anshika Kushwaha commented on 22 Aug 2015

Can you please explain how to interpret the interaction terms when interacting two dummies (race and gender in your example) Thank you

ayyeruslad commented on 08 Oct 2012

it s a really useful video. Thanks! and a question: in case of missing values in the categorical variable, how should we treat?

Rahat Noman commented on 02 Feb 2015

Question is how to generate interaction term in stata ?by combining two variables. could not understand

Nate Brown commented on 16 Oct 2012

do you have an example of using sample mean for dummy variable for continuous variables?

junchen feng commented on 16 Apr 2013

I don't think STATA offers you this choice using "xi:" . Try egen with cell option.

Susana Gonzalez commented on 28 Oct 2012

Thanks! but if i want do a scatter graph whit a dummy variable... what can i do?

D Kiang commented on 09 Apr 2015

Thanks for the video. Very helpful and saved an email to my professor.

junchen feng commented on 09 Nov 2012

Sorry for the late reply. I did not quite understand the question here.

AMKAN 1 commented on 27 Nov 2015

very helpful ! thank you very much !

Extracting first and last names in Stata (1/6)

How to use Stata's functions and regular expressions to extract the first and last name from a name variable. Name variable can be pretty complicated.

STATA tutorial- recoding to create binary indicators

This should provide a basic understanding of how to take a categorical variable (this video used race/ethnicity) and break down its categories into separate ...

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pinktan100 commented on 07 Aug 2013

Hi! how do you recode missing values here while converting into binary var? thanks

Label Variables and Categories in STATA

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bgopal commented on 03 Mar 2013

thanks, it is helpful!

STATA(5) Recode

Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: //www.amara.org/en/v/BhET/ introduce the command of recode and 3 of its 5 recoding rules.

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Arcoxiaify commented on 16 Nov 2012

thanks! you helped me so much! :-)

Extracting first and last names in Stata (4/6)

String to Numeric with Loop

Basic video for converting many STRING variables to NUMERIC using ENCODE syntax in STATA with using LOOPS.

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Prakash Malin commented on 28 Oct 2015

Hi...i used your information but not able to get done...its showing error.. I wrote syntax in this way foreach varlist in sdw tyhouse latrn { encode `varlist`, generate (_'varlist') } Please help me out

Imran Sunesara commented on 28 Oct 2015

I see there is a typo error. Please copy and paste the code and run it. Let me know if it works!foreach varlist in sdw tyhouse latrn {encode `varlist', generate (_`varlist')}

Prakash Malin commented on 28 Oct 2015

+Imran Sunesara :it works thanks lott & lott,

Imran Sunesara commented on 28 Oct 2015

+Prakash Malin please go ahead and try `varlist' Note: It a button on keyboard just above the "Tab" key or left side of key "1"

Imran Sunesara commented on 28 Oct 2015

+Prakash Malin: Try below code, changed from ' to ` foreach varlist in sdw tyhouse latrn {encode `varlist', generate (_`varlist')}

Mariette Slabbert commented on 08 Aug 2015

thank you i really enjoyed the video. However after running the code, i have 'Sorted by' in the Results window and my Data editor and other buttons are not responding. what did i do wrong or how do i restore the Results window?

Imran Sunesara commented on 08 Aug 2015

Were you able to get the code running? Would suggest save the program file and close the STATA. After that start STATA again and re run the program. Let me know if it helped.

Mz Chestnut commented on 19 May 2015

Im following the code to a t but its not working. In your mention of 'varlist', its not being highlighted for me as yours. I used inverted commas on the both ends of the word... How was yours highlighted?

Imran Sunesara commented on 25 May 2015

please go ahead and try `varlist' Note: It a button on keyboard just above the "Tab" key or left side of key "1"

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