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st: drop range of variables meeting condition in another variable
From
"Tamer Farag" <[email protected]>
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st: drop range of variables meeting condition in another variable
Date
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:53:02 -0400
Dear All,
I am working with a case control dataset with gene clusters variables. I have approx 100 observations, a handful of essential variables, but approx. 14,000 variables for each observation that represent gene clusters (absent/present, 0/1). The gene variables are all located next to each other in the dataset (i.e., gene1-gene14000).
I would like to drop variables for gene clusters that are not present among my cases. Obviously, specifying each gene cluster variable would be impractical.
Is there any way to do this in Stata? I'm stumped.
Many thanks,
Tamer
Tamer H. Farag, Ph.D.
Research Associate Epidemiologist
Center for Vaccine Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
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