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Re: st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: 'Re-ordering' the labels of a variable
Date
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:02:31 -0500
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
But to the point: I was under the impression that -recode- could
manage value labels too.
To a certain extant, that's true. However, -re2lab- takes an entirely
different approach (rather than recoding, it re-encodes), and is
capable of catching errors that -recode- with the -label()- option
cannot.
Also, I realize that I forgot to mention one of the most important
reasons I wrote -re2lab-; it is robust against changes in the mapping
of the original variable(s), which can be very useful in certain
contexts.
-- Phil
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