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Re: st: Check if variables have same value


From   Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Check if variables have same value
Date   Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:45:24 -0400

Why not

 . egen rowmin=rowmin(var1 var2 ... varN)
 . egen rowmax=rowmax(var1 var2 ... varN)
 . gen tag=rawmax!=rowmin

? -rowmin- and -rowmax- ignore missing values.

hth,
Jeph

Friedrich Huebler wrote:
I would like to compare a set of variables and tag those that do not
contain the same values. Missing values should be ignored. -egen
newvar = diff(varlist)- is not an option because it does not skip
missing values. The last command in the example below works but it
becomes impractical with a longer list of variables.

. sysuse auto
. gen mpg2 = mpg if foreign==0
. gen mpg3 = mpg if foreign==1
. replace mpg3 = mpg+1 if rep78==2
. egen tag = diff(mpg mpg2 mpg3)
. gen tag2 = (mpg!=mpg2 & mpg<. & mpg2<. | mpg!=mpg3 & mpg<. & mpg3<.
| mpg2!=mpg3 & mpg2<. & mpg3<.)

The -egen- command tags all observations, the -gen- command only those
that I expect to be tagged. Are there better solutions that can also
be used with ten or more variables?

Friedrich
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