Re: st: Automatic mean-centering?

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

At 02:11 PM 8/25/2004, you wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm interested in re-running old models by mean-centering all my
> continuous variables for comparison, as well as obtaining meaningful
> intercept values.
<snip>

> But I'm interested to know if there's a
> quicker way, especially if I have a _lot_ of continuous variables to
> mean-centre.
It's hardly automatic, but the quickest way I can think of is program that 
includes a foreach loop to create a newvar (m_varname) and an appropriate 
label for a varlist.

Fred



Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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