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RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: STATA Vs. SAS
Date   Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:54:30 -0000

Richard Herrell

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Nick Cox wrote:
> 
> > Richard Herrell
> > >
> > > if x=0 then y=1;
> > > else if 1 < x < 10 then y=2;
> > > else if 11 < x < 20 then y=3;
> > > else y=.
> 
> In SAS, the code exits the structure when a true condition 
> is met.  In
> Stata, every if condition is evaluated even after the true 
> condition is
> met.

Perhaps we are not talking about 
the same thing here. I was assuming 
that -x- and -y- are _variables_. 

If this is a problem in producing a single 
value -- held in Stata as a macro or 
a scalar -- given another macro or 
scalar, then the code should be 
of this form  

if `x' == 0 { 
	local y = 1 
} 
else if `x' > 1 & `x' < 10 { 
	local y = 2 
} 
else if `x' > 11 & `x' < 20 { 
	local y = 3 
} 
else local y = . 

Nick 
[email protected] 
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