st: Re: Generating new variable from selected observations

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

You should use foreach (and better syntax).  One way, assuming that the 
observations of interest are 14 and 27, would be:

foreach var of varlist variable1-variable200{
replace `var'=(`var'+`var'[_n+13])/2 if _n==14
}

Note that -if- qualifiers come before the comma and, although I don't fully 
recall, I think that the ltype(numeric) for the deprecated -for- command 
would come after a comma (not a colon) and would not be needed here anyway. 
Another approach might be just keep the two observations and use collapse, 
then append the combined observation onto the master dataset and drop the 
original 2.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
"Julian Jiro Wimbush" <wimbush@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote

> Hello,
> I'm trying to adjudicate one observation that has two sets of responses by 
> taking the mean for all
> my variablers in the two sets of responses and using those means as the 
> data.
>
> More specifically: each observation is a medical center, and one medical 
> center sent in two
> completed surveys (two different people in the org somehow responded), and 
> I simply want what is
> currently coded incorrectly as two medical center observations to be one 
> medical center
> observation, basically by taking the means of two sets of responses for 
> all my variables.  So I
> started writing some code like this:
>
> for variable1-variable200: ltype(numeric): replace @=(@[14]+@[27])/2, if 
> id==14 or id==27
>
> and then simply dropping observation 27, but it didn't work. (I was trying 
> to specify observation
> 14 and 27 in the replace part, but I think I've done something completely 
> different.)
>
> I have a feeling I may well be completely on the wrong track, but any help 
> would be appreciated!
>  Thanks in advance.
>
> Julian
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