Re: st: RE: Re: match values of several variables

["Cris Dogaru (Oregon State University)" <statamplus@gmail.com>]

Thank you very much - I think this is a very short and elegant sollution
Cris

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Note that this can be trimmed to
>
> list if (max(<whatever) - min(<whatever>)) > 0
>
> although the <whatever> inevitably lengthen the command.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Irene Moral
>
> perhaps you can try to compute
>
> var1=max( birthyear_98, birthyear_99.......)
>
> and
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> var2=min( birthyear_98, birthyear_99......)
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> and var3=var1-var2
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> and then recode var3 if var3=0, they match, if var3<0|var3>0 they don't
> match
>
> is this useful for your purpouse?
>
> From: "Cris Dogaru (Oregon State University)" <statamplus@gmail.com>
>
>> I have a longitudinal data in which they asked, at different data
>> collection points, the year of birth for the subject's mother; the
>> variables are named based on the year of data collection (i.e.,
>> birthyear_98, birthyear_99, etc).
>> One would expect the values of these varables to match (if it's the
>> same person), but they don't. I'd like to find an easy way to check if
>> several variables have the same value or not, irrespective of the
>> missing values. For now I am using the grouping () option in egen, and
>> recode by hand the mismatched cases. However, as I am adding new cases
>> to the dataset, the coding needs to be redone every time.
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