Re: st: easy question:standardizing variables

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 07:48 PM 12/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> Statlisters,
>
> I know this is a really basic question, but I really can't figure something
> out:
>
> I want to standardize the variables in my dataset (there are 36) without
> typing "egen zvar1=std(var1)" 36 times.
foreach var of varlist var1 var2 var3 varn {
  egen z`var'=std(`var')
}


Fred Wolfe




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