Thanks four your quick help.
I think I'll 'center' then recode
George
> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:18:24 +0000
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: Create categorical variable based on 'z-score'
>
> --- George Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If there were a way to z-transform variables, I could do an easy
>> recode(catX)
>
> ssc d center
>
> -- Maarten
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