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Re: st: transforming observations
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: transforming observations
Date
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:54:36 +0000
Your example is a little fuzzy. What is it that you already have, x or
temp or both?
But you can create a new variable like this
gen x = cond(temp <= 0, 0, cond(temp == 30, 1, temp))
To do this for several variables use a -foreach- loop.
Nick
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mintewab Bezabih
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to transform observations in my dataset (3476 obervations by 40 variables) into categorical variables based on the following set of rules :
>
> observation x=0 if temp<=0
> observation x=1 if temp==30
> observation x=x if temp>=31
>
> As you could imagine it would take me ages to do that one by one. Is there a compact way of doing this?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> minti
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