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Title

genicv -- Generate interaction between continuous (or dummy) variables

Syntax

genicv varlist [if] [in] [, options]

options Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------- replace replace existing variables x(chars) use chars as separator in variable labels sepvars(chars) use chars as separator for variable names mvc(mvc) replace interactions with mvc if variables have hard missings local(macname) save created variable names in macname -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Description

genicv multiplies variables to create two or three-way interactions. If two variables are specified in varlist, one new variable varname1_varname2 is created as the product of var1 and var2. If three variables are specified, genicv creates varname1_varname2_varname3 and all three two-way interactions (varname1_varname2, varname1_varname3, varname2_varname3). If all variables in varlist are labeled, new variable labels will be "labeli * labelj [* labelk]". If one or more variables in varlist are not labeled, new variables will not be labeled.

Options

+---------+ ----+ options +----------------------------------------------------------

replace replaces existing variables. Default is to only create variables, that do not yet exist.

sepvars(chars) use varnameicharsvarnamej [charsvarnamek] as variable names. Default is "_".

x(chars) use labeli chars labelj [chars labelk] as variable labels. Default is "*".

mvc(mvc) replaces interactions with hard missing mvc (where mvc is one of .a, ..., .z), if one of the original variables has hard missings.

local(macname) saves the created variable names in r(macname). Default macname is icv.

Example

. sysuse nlsw88 ,clear (NLSW, 1988 extract)

. genicv wage age married

. describe

[...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- [...] value variable name [...] label variable label ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- [...] age age in current year [...] married marlbl married [...] wage hourly wage [...] wage_age hourly wage * age in current year wage_married hourly wage * married age_married age in current year * married wage_age_marr~d hourly wage * age in current year * mar > ried ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----

Saved results

genicv saves the following in r():

Macros r(macname) created variable names

Author

Daniel Klein, University of Bamberg, klein.daniel.81@gmail.com

Also see

Online: generate, xi, fvvarlist if installed: tuples, selectvars, chm