Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why aren't some features displayed correctly?
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2. What are the search shortcuts?
Asterisks denote a wildcard.
- age matches terms with the root of age (age, aged, aging, ages)
- age* matches terms that starts with age (agency)
- *age matches terms that end with age (wage and marriage would match)
- *age* matches terms that contain age (wages would match)
A single hyphen denotes that a the variable does not contain the
specified term.
Example: -age
Hyphens should
be outside asterisks:
- Valid: -age*
- Valid: -*age*
- Invalid: *-age*
Field shortcuts can be used to match a term only in a specific field. Append them to a beginning of a term or phrase
- n= Variable name
- l= Label
- f= Full description
- c= Codebook Instructions
- t= Variable Concept/Type
Example: n=age*
Pipes denote an OR concatenation
Example:
money|income
3. How do I insert ASCII math?
CED2AR supports ASCII math for any editable fields. The ASCII math is denoted by the grave accent (the ` symbol). Note this is commonly found on the same key as the diacritical tilde, (the ~ symbol,) and not the apostrophe found under the double quotation mark. For example the code:
`B[\bar{X}_{agkt}] =\ 1/(M-1)sum_{l=1}^{100}(\hat{X}_{agkt}^{(l)} - \bar{X}_{agkt})^2`
renders as:
`B[\bar{X}_{agkt}] =\ 1/(M-1)sum_{l=1}^{100}(\hat{X}_{agkt}^{(l)} - \bar{X}_{agkt})^2`
Please see http://asciimath.org/ for specific syntax.
