Fred Wolfe
>
> Practically, if the if condition is complicated one often
> makes a new
> variable or local macro, as in
>
> gen newvar = cond(x == 1 & age >27 & date >mdy(01,01,2002),1,0)
>
> then just using - if newvar- for the if condition.
>
In turn, it's perhaps worth pointing that this example is
equivalent to
gen newvar = x == 1 & age >27 & date >mdy(01,01,2002)
That is
cond(true_or_false_condition,1,0)
is equivalent to
true_or_false_condition
Nick
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