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st: RE: Generating New variable for best measurement
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"Sarah Edgington" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: Generating New variable for best measurement
Date
Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:50:55 -0800
What do you mean by "best of the four measurements"?
If by best you mean highest then you should be able to get what you want
with:
gen varbest=max(var001,var002,var003,var004)
This will work assuming that each individual is represented by a single
observation. If not, you'll need to give more details of what your data
look like.
-Sarah
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:42 PM
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Subject: st: Generating New variable for best measurement
Dear All,
I have measurements of a test taken at four different times. i.e (var001,
var002, var003 and var004). I want to generate a new variable
(varBest) which takes the best of the four measurements for each individual.
Any advice on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated Thanks!
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