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st: New version of -sdecode- on SSC


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: New version of -sdecode- on SSC
Date   Tue, 8 Jun 2010 19:46:37 +0100

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -sdecode- package is now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version.

The -sdecode- package is a "super" version of -decode-, and is described as below on my website. The new version fixes a rarely-encountered and very confusing bug, which previously caused problems if the encoded variable had value labels and the decoded variable took up more memory than was available. Under these circumstances, -sdecode- would get its decoded values using the display format of the encoded variable. This is fortunately fixed in the new version.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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package sdecode from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata11
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TITLE
sdecode: Decode a numeric variable to string, formatting unlabelled values

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
sdecode is an extended version of decode. It takes, as input, a numeric
      variable, and generates, as output, a string variable, with values
corresponding to value labels of the numeric variable for labelled values, and (optionally) formatted values of the numeric variable for unlabelled values. The output string values therefore appear as the numeric input
      values appear in output from the tabulate command. The output string
variable may replace the input numeric variable or be generated as a new
      variable.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 07june2010
      Stata-Version: 11

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      sdecode.ado
      sdecode.sthlp
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