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st: RE: RE: automated production of labels


From   "David Winter" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: automated production of labels
Date   Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:42:08 -0000

That may well do the job, Nick!  Many thanks

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Mr David L. Winter, HNC
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 02 November 2005 17:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: automated production of labels

Do you want something like this? 

forval i = 0(5)30 { 
	label define riskintvl `i' "`i'-`=`i'+4'", add 
} 
label define riskintval 35 "35-", add 

Nick 
[email protected] 

David L. Winter, HNC
 
> I have used -stset- and then -stsplit- on my (large) datasets:
> 
> Stsplit riskintvl, at (0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35)
> 
> Using -tab- on the created variable riskintvl gives :
> 
> Risk     |
> Interval |   Freq
> ------------------
>      0   |   .....
>      5   |   .....
>     10   |   .....
>     15   |   .....
>     20   |   .....
>     25   |   .....
>     30   |   .....
>     35   |   .....
> 
> Is there any way that I can automatically produce labels for 
> the values
> of riskintvl that encompass the range of values within each cell
> (value[n] - (1-value[n+1]) i.e
> 
> 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-
> 
> I would be useful to do this for any definition of variables produced
> using -stsplit-

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