Oops, now I know what I did wrong. My dataset is very large, so I broke
the list output before the entire output was completed . I was testing this
command
interactively. Once I ran it in my do file it worked fine.
Sorry,
Thanks,
Tonya
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: Majority command: Not producing new varname
Works for me. I am using -majority- 1.2.0.
What
Nick
[email protected]
>
> > I am using the majority command (author: Nicholas J. Cox) to
> > count majority
> > items in a specific group (defid). However, when I used the option
> > generate(newvarlist) with one variable to return the majority
> > calculation,
> > the variable is not generated. Below is the command I typed
> > and an extract
> > of the results. I would like to further manipulate the
> > majority valuable,
> > but it is not generated from this command. Any help is
> > appreciated. Thank
> > you.
> >
> > majority predelib, pos(1) neg(2) by(defid) gen(maj)
> >
> > +------------------------------------------------+
> > | defid total positive negative majority |
> > |------------------------------------------------|
> > | 3 5 2 2 0
> > |
> > | 7 3 2 0 2
> > |
> > | 9 3 1 0 1
> > |
> > | 11 4 0 3 -3
> |
> > | 13 3 0 1 -1
> |
> > |------------------------------------------------|
> >
>
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