Re: st: again dummies

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 04:28 PM 3/7/2004 +0000, Tumur Gunchinmaa wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm sorry to trouble you over this but I have tried several options
> without success.The question:
> How to join several dummies (dum1-dum5) into one variable giving
> it values from 1-5 (according to dummies).
> Thank you.
> Gunche
Do you mean something like

gen x = dum1 + 2 * dum2 + 3 * dum3 + 4 * dum4 + 5 * dum5

If you have to do this a lot I suppose you could write some sort of ado 
file for it.


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