Re: st: transforming six categories variable into two categories variable

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 12:32 13/05/03 +0200, baldo continis wrote:
> I've a discrete variable composed by six categories
> and I want to reduce the number of categories from six
> to two. In other terms I have to unify three
> categories into one and residual three categories into
> another one.
> How can I get this new variable?
> thanks for your suggestion.
Use the -recode- command. Look in the online help under -help recode-, or 
in the manuals under -[R] recode-.

Roger


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