Thank you for your help,
Is there a way to list multiple cases that dont fit a standard expression in the replace command. for example:
replace var1=1 if var2==1 or 3
I want cases 1 and 3 to have value 1 for var1, but not case 2 and rather than writing the whole syntax twice, i would like to shorten it:
replace var1=1 if caseid==1
replace var1=1 if caseid==3
Any clues?
Regards
Jason Payne
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Williams [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:53 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Transformations
At 11:43 AM 2/11/2004 +1100, Jason Payne wrote:
>Dear STATAlistservers
>
>I am trying to transform data in variables. What is the equivalent STATA>
syntax for this SPSS command
>
>if (var1=2) var2=1.
Stata does things kind of backwards from SPSS:
gen var2 = 1 if var1==2
Note the ==
If var2 already exists, instead say
replace var2 = 1 if var1==2
But, what do you want when var1 does not equal 2? Missing? A 0-1
dichotomy? There may be some other ways to approach this, depending on whaty
our ultimate goal is.
>This syntax only works if you want to create a new variable, however in
>some cases I might with to modify an existing variable for one case
>only. This is particularly useful in cleaning string variables where
>there are spelling mistakes. In SPSS I would just type:
>
>if (caseid=1) stringvar='SPSS'.
>if (caseid=2) stringvar='STATA'.
replace stringvar="SPSS" in 1
replace stringvar="STATA" in 2
I'm assuming these are the first and second cases in your data. If not
necessarily so, and caseid is a variable in your data set, then try
replace stringvar="SPSS" if caseid==1
replace stringvar="STATA" if caseid==2
Or, just go in to the data editor and do it! Lot easier sometimes really.
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