--- Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> This question was inspired by Veit Grote's recent post. The command
>
> . recode varname min/3=1 3/6=2 6/9=3
>
> recodes all values <=3 to 1, and all values >3 and <=6 to 2. How
> does a Stata user learn this "read from left to right" rule? I
> could not find this documented anywhere.
My question was about the interpretation of overlaps in a -recode-
command. I thought this was not documented but I was wrong. Overlaps
are explained under the heading "Test for mistakes in rules" in the
entry for -recode- in the Stata 8 Reference Manual.
Friedrich Huebler
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