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st: recode non-numerical values
From
Jet <[email protected]>
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st: recode non-numerical values
Date
Mon, 2 May 2011 22:16:59 -0400
Hi, everyone,
I have a question regarding matching of nonnumerical values.
Suppose the original data looks like this:
ID Drug ID
1 d06662
2 d06665
3 d04878
4 d05048
Now suppose d06662 is a drug for hypertension, which I want to
code into "1", and all else into "0". I tried to destring the
variable, but it does not allow me doing so since it contains
characters. Any suggestion to handle this situation?
thanks
Jeff
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