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AW: st: data management


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   AW: st: data management
Date   Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:02:54 +0100

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egen, group()
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does not support -by-, though...


HTH
Martin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Ulrich Kohler
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Dezember 2009 16:04
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: data management

I would use egen-group in the long format for this:

. gen index = _n
. reshape long Var, i(index)
. egen countdif = group(Var), by(index)
. reshape long 

Many regards
Uli

Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 15:56 +0100 schrieb [email protected]:
> Dear all,
> I have a quick data management question. I would like to count the number of different values over several variables within a row and save the result in a new variable.
> 
> For example: 
> Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5 Var6 Var7 Varx
> 1         2      3        9       20     1       1      ...
> 
> In the example above, the new variable would holds the value 5, since Var1, Var6 and Var7 all hold the same value (put differently, 5 different values can be count over var1 - var7). 
> 
> I tried the following command: egen byte countdif = diff(var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 var6 var7 varx). However, the new variable is only a dummy (0/1). 
> 
> I bet there is a very simple solution – however I am too blind to see it…
> 
> I appreciate any help and suggestions.
> Thanks
> Simon
> 
> 
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