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st: still for Stata 14: a new cases function complementing cond and recode
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László Sándor <[email protected]>
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st: still for Stata 14: a new cases function complementing cond and recode
Date
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:29:41 -0400
It would be nice to have a "cases" function built in, instead of
resorting to nested conds as the only, unpopular alternative to many
lines of "replace if"s following an initial -gen-. Way too many
processor hours are wasted worldwide on not having a function like
-recode()- but only slightly complicated:
cases(condition1,value1,condition2,value2,…,value_if_none_true)
Btw, this would also make the ridiculously slow -recode- command obsolete.
Thanks,
Laszlo
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