Nick Cox wrote:
gen Z = max(X, Y)
is even simpler.
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The List is great for dispelling id�es fixes: for some reason, I had got it
into my head a long time ago that -max()- doesn't work for variables
(probably attempted to use ranges of variables as the argument at one time
or another), and had never bothered to consider the function again in such a
context.
Thanks, Nick.
Joseph Coveney
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