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RE: st: RE: RE: Creating a group variable based on values in observations


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: RE: Creating a group variable based on values in observations
Date   Sat, 21 May 2011 11:35:04 +0100

I missed out a crucial line: 

gen signature = ""
bysort id (market) : replace signature = signature[_n-1] + string(market)
by id : replace signature = signature[_N] 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Nick Cox

Going for the interpretation that 1 ... 7 are days of the week, then
another way to do it would have been

gen signature = ""
bysort id (market) : replace signature = signature[_n-1] + string(market)

which creates signatures such as "135", which as Bert says can be
mapped to integers 1 up with -egen, group()-. Strictly, -group()- is
an -egen- function, not an option.

Use the -label- option and they remain intelligible.

Use -tabulate- and you get indicator variables.



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