Thanks, nick. Egen std works. Can I nest floor(ceil(x)) to get the desired
...?
> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:37:17 +0000
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: RE: Create categorical variable based on 'z-score'
>
> Despite various answers, no one mention -egen, std()- followed by
> -floor()- and -ceil(). All existing official Stata.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> George Hoffman
>
> Generic problem: I'd like to create categorical variables for a list of
> continuous variables. The categorical variables would be based upon the
> z-score of each variable, such as:
> Z-score of X catX
> <-2 -3
> -2 ..-1 -2
> -1 .. 0 -1
> 0 0
> 0.. +1 +1
> 1 ..2 +2
>> +2 +3
>
> If there were a way to z-transform variables, I could do an easy
> recode(catX)
>
>
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