Like Svend, I can't square the combinatorial explosion
you imply with your specific example.
But -egen, seq()- may help with what you want.
Nick
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Svend Juul
> Gerben ter Riet wrote:
>
> For 80 observations, I have information on 3 binary (0,1) variables.
> I'd like to get a file containing all possible combinations
> (80*80*80=512000). So, let's say I had
> _n var1 var2 var3
> 1 a b c
> 2 d e f
>
> and I need a data file that contains
> 1 a b c
> 2 a b f
> 3 a e c
> 4 a e f
> 5 d b c
> 6 d b f
> 7 d e c
> 8 d e f
>
> How may this be accomplished?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am not sure what you want. You have three binary variables (0,1),
> yet you gave them the values (a,d), (b,e), and (c,f).
>
> I can see 8 rather than 512000 possible combinations:
> 0 0 0
> 0 0 1
> 0 1 0
> 0 1 1
> 1 0 0
> 1 0 1
> 1 1 0
> 1 1 1
> and that number is unrelated to any empirical findings.
>
> But that is probably not what you are looking for.
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