st: Re: accessing number of changes made by replace

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

I just answered this q (offlist) for one of our grad students the other 
day. Here is a utility that will handle this feature. The flag 
variable's sum is the number of changes made.

program drop _all
program alt1
version 8.2
syntax varlist(min=1 max=1)
qui g double __`varlist' = `varlist'
end

program alt2
version 8.2
syntax varlist(min=1 max=1)
confirm numeric v __`varlist'
qui g byte flag_`varlist' = !(`varlist' == __`varlist')
drop __`varlist'
su flag_`varlist'
end


use auto
* set the 'watched' state for price
alt1 price
* do some replacements
replace price=. if price<5000
replace price=99999 if price>10000
* generate the flag variable indicating which obs have been altered
alt2 price

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:33 AM, Nick wrote:


> Subject: st: RE: Accessing the number of changes made by a "replace" 
> command
>
> I think you need to implement this yourself.
> If you have a variable holding
> the previous values, then after each change
> you compare latest version with the previous values;
> exit if no differences; otherwise replace
> previous with latest, and loop again.
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