Janet,
Quoting Janet Willard <[email protected]>:
> I have a dataset that consists of a number of patients and the tooth
>
> treated, typically of the form Evans LL5. I wanted to combine these
> into a
> single numerical variable to identify each specific patient / tooth
>
> combination. The syntax I have used is:
> catenate code = patient tooth,punct(no)
> encode code,gen(code1)
> This returns a long variable which has the "numerical value"
> EvansLL5. What
> I really wanted was a numerical variable such as 1. Can I achive
> this?
The -group- option of the -egen- command, applied to the variable you've
created above, might do the trick.
--Mark
> Many thanks,
> Janet
>
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