Why not
. egen rowmin=rowmin(var1 var2 ... varN)
. egen rowmax=rowmax(var1 var2 ... varN)
. gen tag=rawmax!=rowmin
? -rowmin- and -rowmax- ignore missing values.
hth,
Jeph
Friedrich Huebler wrote:
I would like to compare a set of variables and tag those that do not
contain the same values. Missing values should be ignored. -egen
newvar = diff(varlist)- is not an option because it does not skip
missing values. The last command in the example below works but it
becomes impractical with a longer list of variables.
. sysuse auto
. gen mpg2 = mpg if foreign==0
. gen mpg3 = mpg if foreign==1
. replace mpg3 = mpg+1 if rep78==2
. egen tag = diff(mpg mpg2 mpg3)
. gen tag2 = (mpg!=mpg2 & mpg<. & mpg2<. | mpg!=mpg3 & mpg<. & mpg3<.
| mpg2!=mpg3 & mpg2<. & mpg3<.)
The -egen- command tags all observations, the -gen- command only those
that I expect to be tagged. Are there better solutions that can also
be used with ten or more variables?
Friedrich
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