Re: repost: -cond()- function

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:59 AM 1/1/2004 -0500, VISINTAINER PAUL wrote:
> I have an integer variable that I would like to collapse into a 
> dichotomous variable. Using the following statement:
>
>       .gen cholcat = cond(chol,0,1,9)
>
> produces the same output as:
>
>      .gen cholcat = cond(chol,0,1)
>
> The first statement continues to recode "missings" as 1, not 9.  In order 
> to capture the missings appropriately, I have to follow each -cond()- 
> statement with a -replace- command.
>
> Am I using the -cond()- function appropriately?
Well, if it is any consolation, it looks to me like you are doing it 
exactly right.  In fact, I just tried it with some data I made up using 
your exact syntax, and  gen cholcat = cond(chol,0,1,9) worked fine.

I am using Stata 8; what version do you have?  If not 8, maybe the syntax 
has changed across time?

Incidentally, this command produces a var coded 0, 1, and missing, if that 
helps any:

gen cholcat = cond(chol,0,1) if chol <.


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