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Creating a dummy from a two-category variable

Given is a basetable with one predictive variable "gender". Make sure that "gender" can be used as a predictive variable in a logistic regression model by creating dummy variables for it.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Create a pandas dataframe dummies_gender that has the dummy variables for "gender". Make sure to avoid multicollinearity.
  • Add these dummies to the original basetable.
  • Remove the original variable "gender" from the basetable.