Hi David, here is a sample of the data
+--------------------------------+
p1 p2 p3
--------------------------------
.0193647 .7684672 .2121681
.0110648 .0962676 .8926677
.00574 .8762589 .1180012
.0045997 .1808127 .8145875
.0024693 .3957042 .6018265
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.0067998 .3438436 .6493566
.0113164 .0771485 .9115351
.0123369 .133595 .854068
.0103629 .2671735 .7224636
.0085421 .1814262 .8100317
+--------------------------------+
To illustrate what I want, for the first two observations, I want my new
variable pred to be
pred
2 /* because p2 is the largest*/
3 /*because p3 is the largest*/
etc
About the largest value occuring in either values, it hasnt happened and I
dont anticpate that it will occur.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of David Kantor
Sent: 8. april 2003 14:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: max value
Ronnie Wrote:
>Hi (stata8, win2k)
>I have 3 variables p1 p2 p3. I need to generate a new variable pred
>
>"pred" ==
>1 if p1 is the largest of the 3,
>2 if p2 is the largest
>and 3 if p3 is the largest
>[...]
This is not particularly difficult, but the problem, as stated is
ambiguous. What do you want to happen if the maximal value occurs in more
than one of the variables?
--David
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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