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Re: st: using outcome of the command "list"


From   "Eric A. Booth" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: using outcome of the command "list"
Date   Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:02:14 -0500

<>

bys IDnumber: replace NewID = IDnumber if _n==1




On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Md Alauddin Majumder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Eric, thanks for your reply. Actually I want to fill 'NewID[1]' by Wyoming's IDnumber.
> 
> Majumder
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Eric A. Booth [[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 11:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: st: using outcome of the command "list"
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> <>
> 
> 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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