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st: RE: Observation variable transformation


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Observation variable transformation
Date   Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:13:38 +0100

Look at the help for -egen-, especially -egen, seq()-. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

kelly johnson

> I have created an observation variable X (e.g. gen X=_n) for 
> a large data 
> set. How can I create a new variable that is unique for successive 
> observations of 10 variables (i.e. i want this variable to be 
> equal to 1 in 
> obs 1-10, 2 in 11-20, and so forth)? There are way too many 
> obervations to write a simple -replace- command.

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