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help for ^dummies^
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Creation of families of dummy variables
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    ^dummies^ varlist [^if^ exp] [^in^ range] [, ^m^issing ]

Description
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^dummies^ creates families of dummy variables for each variable in varlist.
Applied to varname, it produces varname1, varname2, etc. Applied to longname
(a name 8 characters long), it produces longnam1, longnam2, etc.


Remarks
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^dummies^ is appropriate for categorical variables taking small numbers of
distinct values.


Options
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^missing^ specifies that values of missing are to be included, so that if
    any variable has missing values a dummy variable is also created for
    missing.


Examples
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    . ^dummies rep78^


Author
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         Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham, U.K.
         n.j.cox@@durham.ac.uk


Also see
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On-line: help for @tabulate@, @xi@
