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Re: st: using outcome of the command "list"
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"Eric A. Booth" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: using outcome of the command "list"
Date
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 23:33:42 -0500
<>
bys IDnumber: replace NewID = IDnumber[1]
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Md Alauddin Majumder
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
> I have a data set like the following:
>
> IDnumber State NewID
>
> 1 Alabama .
> 2 Alaska .
> .. .... ...
> .. .... ...
> .. .... ...
> 52 Wyoming .
>
> If I input -list IDnumber if State=="Wyoming"-, the outcome will be '52'. Now I want to replace missing value in the first cell of the variable NewID by this outcome. How can I write code for that?
>
> I tried the following but it did not work: replace NewID[1]=list IDnumber if State=="Wyoming".
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Regards
> Majumder
>
>
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