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Re: st: rescaling a variable by the maximum value question
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"Justina Fischer" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: rescaling a variable by the maximum value question
Date
Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:02:35 +0200
you can generate a variable that takes on the maximum value
e.g.
su age
gen var = `r(max)'
gen newvar = oldvar/var
see also return list after the sum command
HTH
Justina
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:49:07 -0400
> Von: "JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: rescaling a variable by the maximum value question
> I'm sure I'm simply overlooking something easy but I want to make a
> new variable that is rescaled by dividing by the maximum value of the
> old one. Old variable: 1, 2, 3, 4. New variable should be 0.25, 0.5,
> 0.75, 1.
>
> The syntax
>
> gen newvar = oldvar/max(oldvar)
>
> does not work and I understand why it doesn't, because max doesn't
> work that way. Is there a straightforward way to do this? (Yes I could
> simply
>
> summarize oldvar
>
> and pick out the max by hand and rescale. I'd like to avoid that, if
> possible. ;)
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