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st: Replace function
From
Christian Westby <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
st: Replace function
Date
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:59:05 -0500
Dear Statalisters,
I have a quick question that I cannot seem to find an answer to.
I want to replace the values of a variable only in a specified subset
of observations
For example:
set obs 10
gen id=_n
expand 3
gen sex=0
replace sex=1 if id== 1 3 4 7 9 (I only want to replace the value for
these specific id’s)
The above replace statement does not work. Beside inputting the data
by hand, how could I get this to work? I have tried adding the “in”
function such as
replace sex=1 if id in(1 3 4 7 9)
but it too did not work.
Regards
-Chris
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