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Re: st: recode non-numerical values
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Keith Dear <[email protected]>
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Re: st: recode non-numerical values
Date
Tue, 3 May 2011 12:51:59 +1000
gen byte drug = (DrugID=="d06662")
On 3 May 2011 12:16, Jet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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