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st: recoding question
From
"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
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"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: recoding question
Date
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:13:37 +0000
I have a string variable with codes
Markedly Improved
Markedly Worse
Moderately Improved
Moderately Worse
Slightly Improved
Slightly Worse
Unchanged
I want to convert these to a numeric variable, but ordered in terms of improvement. I was looking for a way to do this easily in one step, but didn't find a simple command like encode or recode. I ended up using encode to get the variables numeric and then recoding them.
Is there a simple way to do this? For seven categories it's no big deal, but if I had 20 categories and needed to do this repeatedly, it would be a pain.
Another option would be to prefix a numeral for the codes but that seems clumsy...
Peter A. Lachenbruch,
Professor (retired)
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