Nahid Tabatabai
>
> I have an account balance variable with bracketed values
> for some of the observations. I need to convert those
> bracket values to continuos values. What is the best way of
> doing that? What type of regression I can use for this
> variable? It's the dependent variable.
>
I guess this means that you have a variable with non-numeric
characters, presumably [], which Stata will be holding
as a string variable.
If so, then use -destring- to strip the "[]"
. destring myvar, ignore([]) replace
or (safer)
. destring myvar, ignore([]) generate(newvar)
See on-line help for -destring-.
Nick
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