st: New package -varlabdef- on SSC

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package varlabdef is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -varlabdef- package is described as below on my website. It is an extended version of -label define-, with labelled values corresponding to variables and labelled accordingly. Once such a variable label is defined, the user can us -label save- to save its definition to a do-file, and rerun  that do-file in output datasets (or resultssets) with observations corresponding to variables in the original dataset, and then use -encode- (or -sencode-) to create labelled variables in those resultssets.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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package varlabdef from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      varlabdef: Define a value label with values corresponding to variables

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      varlabdef creates (or extends) a value label, with one value
      for each of a list of variables, and labels copied from the
      variable labels, variable names, or other variable
      attributes.  This value label may be re-used in output
      datasets (or resultssets), with observations corresponding
      to the variables.  Such output datasets may be created using
      packages such as parmest, downloadable from SSC.
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 09april2009
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      varlabdef.ado
      varlabdef.sthlp
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