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Hi There, While looking through the mailing list archive, I did not come across a simple minded example regarding the creation of dummy variables. The Gauss language provides the command "y = dummydn(x,v,p)" for creating dummy variables. Here: x = Nx1 vector of data to be broken up into dummy variables. v = Kx1 vector specifying the K-1 breakpoints p = positive integer in the range [1,K], specifying which column should be dropped in the matrix of dummy variables. y = Nx(K-1) matrix cont...