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Re: st: generate if [exp], otherwise


From   Ron�n Conroy <[email protected]>
To   "statalist hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: generate if [exp], otherwise
Date   Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:49 +0100

on 12/08/2004 09:24, Mark Clatworthy at [email protected] wrote:

> I would like to generate a newvar which is equal to
> variable y +1 if variable x
> is less than 5, but equal to variable y if variable x is greater than 5.


. gen newvar = y + (x < 5) if ~missing(x)

The logical statement (x < 5) evaluates to true (1) or false (0). Since it
is false when x is missing, the -if- statement is needed to keep newvar from
taking on values when it shouldn't.

Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764)

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