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@