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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
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Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need help to create variable from list of qualitative variables
Date
Sun, 6 Mar 2011 12:57:11 -0500
The six variables should be recoded to have values 0 (no) and 1 (yes). Why not set up a fake data point and work out the calculation for yourself?
Regards,
Steve
[email protected]
On Mar 6, 2011, at 12:31 PM, prakash singh wrote:
Thanks a lot Nick
Nick, if you do not mind can you just give me the hint on reasoning of
the command.
Prakash
On 3/6/11, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> In fact you might as well go
>
> gen myvar = 7 - (var1 + var2 + var3 + var4 + var5 + var6)
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> egen myvar = rowtotal(var1-var6)
>> replace myvar = 7 - myvar
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, prakash singh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have six qualitative variable with two options (yes/no) in each
>>> question. Now, I want to create a variable using these six variable
>>> such that the new variable will have value equal to one if for all the
>>> six variables option is yes, then new variable will have value equal
>>> to two if for any five variables option is yes and no for any one of
>>> these.... and so on.
>>
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