Hi,
One way would be to use egen. -help egen - however, the negative values will
be picked up. To avoid that I create a new variable for each old one with
missing values replacing values<0.
* create new variables & replace negative with missing values
foreach var of varlist v1- v4 {
gen `var'i=`var'
replace `var'i=. if `var'i<0
}
* use egen to get the minimum of the row
egen min=rowmin(v1i- v4i)
* drop unnecessary variables
drop v*i
rajesh
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Murali
Kuchibhotla
Sent: 26 August 2008 03:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: sorting a variable list within each obs.(row)
Hello,
I have a dataset that looks like this:
Obs. V1 V2 V3 V4
1 -1 -2 3 5
2 4 5 7 9
I would like to create a variable that picks out the minimum positive value
from each row, i.e. one that picks out 3 from row 1 and 4 from row 2.How do
I
accomplish this? Thanks.
Murali
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