On Aug 28, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Suzy wrote:
I used the destring option because I wasn't able to analyze the data as
is - I would get error messages regarding not being able to analyze
string. These values are codes that represent disorders, so you are
correct. But since I am a fairly new user of Stata, I just figured that
it couldn't read those values because of the dashes or the
alpha-numeric
since the datapoints that were only numbers were read and analyzed with
no problem.
encode is the answer to this problem. You cannot do anova, for
instance, on a string variable, but you can once you have encoded it,
and it will still display the 'words' (disorder codes) on the levels of
the variable--it is just that they are now value labels for the
variable rather than values.
Kit
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