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st: RE: AW: recoding a variable
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st: RE: AW: recoding a variable
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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:15:30 -0800
A small comment: (Martin did cover this in his later post)
Be wary of replacing a variable you are recoding. It's usually better to maintain the original data - you never know when someone will ask you for a dichotomy cutting at 0.75, etc. Also, my comment from a few days ago about why do this still holds. You lose information.
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
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replace var=var>.5
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HTH
Martin
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Hi,
I got some very good quick advice on a looping question I asked
earlier. I have another question. Suppose I have a variable with
values that range between 0 ands 1. I simply want to recode this so
that any value greater than 0.5 becomes a 1, and 0 otherwise. How do I
do this?
Thanks,
Walt
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