Introduction to factor variables in Stata®, part 1: The basics

Discover factor variables and a basic introduction to using them in regression models.
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[@ZwockelCraft]

As an econometrics student, this channel has quite literally saved my life. Thank you Stata for filling the void some lecturers leave.

[@carisacarlton]

Better explanation than my Stata book. Thank you. Stata's i command is also an eloquent solution to using categorical variables (when you must) in logistic regression.

[@AnonymousSam]

Great video! I was trying to run a logistic regression on race as a factor variable, but when I ran it, it only gave me the numeric values for the race, so I had no idea which races were assigned to what numeric value. Seeing the tabulate command executed in the video helped, because then I found out how stata assigns each variable. Thanks a ton, I love your videos, keep them coming

[@Dadrowningape]

Thanks man, that was really helpful.

[@FutureLearnD]

thank you it was helpful.I need also some about how will be the interpretation

[@mohammedaminadem1989]

continue your good job

[@dehiole6463]

5:15

[@TianxiaZhou]

I might be wrong, but it seems to me that factor variable is a new feature added to STATA 11. I guess you need to use dummy variables in STATA 10.

[@jchuber2]

Well, I wrote a lengthy reply but it ran well over 500 characters. I would recommend consulting your favorite applied statistics text for guidance on interpretation.

[@musiclover3188]

Nice presentation, but the no base category still shows omitted even though I declared base category as "no base". But if individually do regression, the coefficient is shown. What is the reason ?

[@rocknelson190988]

Hi there, can someone help with this: in both anova and ancova models, how do you interpret the coeficients of the interaction between 2 factor variables, and the coeficient of the interatcion between a factor variable and a continuos variable???? thanks in advance for any tip.

[@Huvaido]

Thank you, but i have a question i have stata 10 and i.[variable] is not working. Could you please share the command for the STATA 10 please. would highly appreciate your help. thank you again.

[@lazregsaid3830]

please put video how we can use stata to do maps thank you in advance