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Re: st: Need Help with converting String Variables to Numeric Variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Need Help with converting String Variables to Numeric Variables
Date
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:34:20 +0100
I agree with Daniel. But I would check what is being mapped to zero.
destring numvar, force gen(strvar)
tab numvar if missing(strvar)
Nick
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:58 PM, daniel klein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Can't you just -destring- your string variable, specifying the -force-
> option, and -replace- the created missing values with 0 in the new
> variable? Or am I missing something here?
Anwar
> I am working on a data set of a hospital where one of the variables
> has string values as observations .
>
> I am able to convert numeric string values to numeric values using
> destring command.
>
> But I have some of the observations as "< 4", "<0.04","less than 0.1"
> which needs to be converted to zero .
>
> In Stata we have option to convert nonmumeric values to missing values
> , but I need to convert them to Zero .
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