Re: st: tabulate with gen

[Philipp Rehm <Philipp.Rehm@gmx.de>]

This link may be helpful: 
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/services/computer/presentations/statatutorial/example28.html

But I think there is an even shorter way than they describe:

xi, prefix() i.foo noomit

For some reasons, Stata is over-writing these dummies when you do this 
for another variable, say:

xi, prefix() i.bar noomit

A work-around may be something like this:
xi, prefix(FOO) i.foo noomit
renpfix FOO
xi, prefix(BAR) i.bar noomit
renpfix BAR

HTH,
Philipp

Hebe B. Quinton wrote:

> Hello -
>
> I use
>
>  tab foo, gen(foo_)
>
> all the time to create dummy variables based on the values of foo - I get
> foo_1, foo_2, etc.
>
> Does any one have a technique (I won't call it a trick) for having the
> extension be the actual value of foo?  For example, I have health care center
> numbers that are NOT continuously numbered from 1 to 100, so the dummy and the
> root value quickly get out of synch:
>
> center
> 1
> 2
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
>
> tab center, gen(center_)
>
> creates center_3 that corresponds to center==5, center_4 corresponds to
> center==6, etc
>
> Seems like a recipe for disaster when generating reports....!
>
> I can generate a do file to rename them, but I though someone else might have
> solved this problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Hebe Quinton 
> Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
> Clinical Research/Department of Medicine
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