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Re: st: recoding question
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: recoding question
Date
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:18:48 -0500
Tony,
I think what you want is the "label" option to the -encode- command;
just be sure to set up the label (using -label define-) before you use
the -encode- command
Rich
On 12/24/12 11:13 AM, Lachenbruch, Peter wrote:
> 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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