Re: st: Combinations of variables

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

if I understand you correctly, I would use -egen- with the "concat"
option and then just tabulate the new variable (possibly using the sort
option as in -ta newvar, sort-

Rich

On 6/4/13 10:14 AM, Seliger Florian wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
> 
> I need to find the most frequent combinations of variables in my dataset.
> There are 12 variables of interest each coded 0/1.
> 
> Example:
> 
> ID           var1       var2       var3 ..
> 1             0             1             0
> 2             0             0             1
> 3             0             1             0
> 4             1             1             1
> 5             0             1             0
> .
> .
> .
> 
> In this example, the most frequent combination is var1=0, var2=1, var3=0 (for ID 1, 3, 5).
> 
> At the moment, I have no idea how to find out the combinations for so many different cases automatically.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your consideration.
> 
> Florian
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