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Re: st: easy question:standardizing variables

From   Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>
To   statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject   Re: st: easy question:standardizing variables
Date   Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:54:04 -0600 
At 07:48 PM 12/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:

Statlisters,

I know this is a really basic question, but I really can't figure something
out:

I want to standardize the variables in my dataset (there are 36) without
typing "egen zvar1=std(var1)" 36 times.
foreach var of varlist var1 var2 var3 varn {
egen z`var'=std(`var')
}


Fred Wolfe




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