Another bottom line is that nobody seems to be looking around to see whether the problem has been solved already, at least in part.
-modes- from SJ was updated in 2003:
SJ-3-2 sg113_1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for modes
(help modes if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q2/03 SJ 3(2):211
provides new option for specifying the number of modes to
be shown
That doesn't create a flag variable, but it seems a reasonable extra option, so I will add that task to my to-do list.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
Bottom line so far: It takes a bit of ingenuity to do what Elan initially
requested, unless somebody comes along with a neat solution...
Cohen, Elan
>>>> I have a string variable dx that represents a patient's diagnosis
(about
>>>> 5,000 unique values). I'd like to create a "top 10 flag" that equals 1
>>
>> if
>>>>
>>>> dx is one of the top 10 most frequent diagnoses and 0 otherwise.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not even sure where to begin. If someone could point me in the
>>>> right
>>>> direction, I'd be grateful. Stata 10, Windows XP
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