Re: st: Is there an equivalent of ACCESS IIF function in STATA?

[Thomas Trikalinos (.Mac) <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

doesn't "if" suit your needs?

. gen conditionEvaluationResults = 1 if (<conditions are true>)
. replace conditionEvaluationResults = 0 if (<conditions are not true>)



On Jul 6, 2004, at 0:08, Weiwei Du wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In ACCESS the IIF function returns one value if a specified condition
> evaluates to TRUE, or another value if it evaluates to FALSE:
>
> IIF (condition, value_if_true, value_if_false)
>
> condition is the value that you want to test.
> value_if_true is the value that is returned if condition evaluates to 
> TRUE.
> value_if_false is the value that is return if condition evaluates to 
> FALSE
>
> I'm looking for a similar function in STATA in order to set a variable 
> to
> two different values based on a condition test.
>
> Is there such a function existing? Or, any other easy way to work this 
> out?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Weiwei
>
>
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