You can do it, but not I think directly. Here is one way:
sysuse auto
egen nmake = group(make)
replace nmake = nmake - 1
labmask nmake, values(make)
where -labmask- should be located using -findit-.
But I can't see that zero-start has any real advantages. Can you name
any?
Nick
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moleps islon
is it possible, somehow, to
specify stata to start encoding with tha value 0 instead of 1 ?
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