FACTEXT: Stata module to extract factor values from a label variable created by parmest

Roger Newson

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: factext is used to extract factors (categorical variables) from a label variable in an output data set created by the parmest package. The parmest package creates a data set with 1 obs per estimated parameter and data on the parameter estimates, confidence limits, P-values, and (optionally) also a variable named label, containing the variable label for the X-variable corresponding to the parameter. If the X-variable is a dummy variable created by xi, tabulate or John Hendrickx's desmat package, then the value of label will be of the form "varname==value", where varname is a variable name and value is a numeric or string value. factext uses this information to create new factors (categorical variables) with the specified varnames and values. These new variables can then be used to produce tables and/or plots. factext can be used together with the descsave package (q.v.)

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 16
Keywords: data; manipulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-07-06, Revised 2020-11-25
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install factext". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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