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Creation of families of dummy variables ----------------------------------------

^dummies^ varlist [^if^ exp] [^in^ range] [, ^m^issing ]

Description ------------

^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 --------

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

Options --------

^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 ---------

. ^dummies rep78^

Author -------

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

Also see ---------

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