Re: st: Converting count to dichotomous variable

["Shittu, Aminu" <ameen_vet@yahoo.com>]

 Thank you very much Eric. I will try your suggestion when I returned to my desk. I am on transit now.

Have a nice weekend,

Aminu.




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From: Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 10:23:31 PM
Subject: Re: st: Converting count to dichotomous variable



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Sorry, your mortalities were in var1, not var2, so the line:

bys day: egen var4_b = max(var2)

should have said:

bys day: egen var4_b = max(var1)

but the main point is the same.

EAB

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On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Eric Booth wrote:

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One strategy is to take the max number of mortalities (via -egen-) across all obs. in each day (or each pond/day -- I'm not sure which you need) and then recode anything greater than zero as a "1" indicating that mortalities occurred (leaving it as zero otherwise).  Here a quick example:


***************!
clear

*--fake data
set obs 7
g var3 = _n
expand 365
sort var3
g var2 = int(30+runiform()*100)
g var1 = int(runiform()*4)
su var*



**var4**
*--daily mortality
by var3:  g day = _n

*---1. for each pond/day
g var4_a = 1 if var1 != 0 //no mortalities each pond/day
replace var4_a = 0 if mi(var4_a)

*---2.  for each day only
bys day: egen var4_b = max(var2)
recode var4_b (1/max = 1) (0=0)

su var4*


***************!

- Eric

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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
Office: +979.845.6754


On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Aminu Shittu wrote:

Dear Statalisters,

I have var1 in my data set which represents number of death in a fish pond and var2 representing the existing number. The daily mortality was recorded in 7 fish ponds (var3) for a period of 1 year (365x7 rows). I am interested in creating a dichotomous var4, to indicate whether a daily mortality had occurred or not, without taking number of counts into consideration. Is it possible to do this in Stata or Excel?

Aminu.
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