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Re: st: Category sizes in IF statements - how?
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Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Category sizes in IF statements - how?
Date
Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:53:29 -0500
Here is one possible solution:
encode author, gen(author1)
bysort author1: egen authorcnt=count(author1)
gen dummieslab=.
replace dummieslab=0 if author<=20
replace dummieslab=1 if author>20
Best,
Alan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Jan Fredrik Hovden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a simple way to use the size of a category as a condition of an IF statement?
>
> Take for example the variable AUTHOR, which includes about 1000 different authors. I would like to make a dummy for some of these authors (using either TAB,GEN() or DUMMIESLAB - but not for everyone, only for categories including at least 40 persons.
>
> IN OTHER WORDS: What I would like is to do something like this (written in English):
>
> . dummieslab AUTHOR if categorysize>20
>
> I would greatly appreciate any idea f.
>
> Jan Fredrik Hovden
> Associate professor, Department of Information and Media Science
> University of Bergen, Norway
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