On Wed, September 6, 2006 21:05, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Allin Cottrell schrieb:
>>
>> - I couldn't see how to set a variable to "discrete" in the denmark
data
>> set. Not that it would make any sense there, but in case you disabled
>> discreteness for all time series data, isn't that a little too radical?
>
> It's disabled for variables any of whose values have a fractional part.
>
Is that really necessary? For example, I was just told that in a popular
German panel dataset (GSOEP) the years-of-schooling variable can also
take on half-year (.5) values. But nothing in between, so it's still
discrete.
You can always multiply it by 2. Not very clean, but...
Riccardo "Jack" Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
FacoltĂ di Economia "G. FuĂ "
Ancona