st: Re: setting missing values to random numbers

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

replace origred=round(uniform()) if origred==.

M Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT BOZICK" <rbozick@jhu.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:33 PM
Subject: st: setting missing values to random numbers



> Hello,
>
> I am working on recoding a categorical variable (orig) with 10 values into a 
> binary variable (origred) coded  0,1.
>
> gen origred = .
> replace origred = 0 if orig >=1  & orig <=5
> replace origred = 1 if orig >5    & orig <=10
>
> There are a number of missing values for the original variable orig.
>
> Is there a way to have Stata randomly assign those missing values to either a 
> 0 or a 1 in the new variable origred?  I am completely stumped.
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