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Re: st: forming groups by an ordered number
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: forming groups by an ordered number
Date
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:25 +0100
See also the -egen- function -seq()-.
Nick
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Joerg Luedicke
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Say your variable is called -days-, you could type:
>
> gen week=ceil(days/7)
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:10 AM, [email protected]
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a sequence of numbers that indicate days prior to a given event: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5... up to 90).
>>
>>
>> Out of this sequence I would like to have a frequency on a weekly basis. I mean that numbers 1,2...7 take the value of 1 (i.e. this is week 1), numbers 8,9,10, 11...14 take the value of 2.
>>
>> Could one help me with that?
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