You could do it using random draws e.g.
gen a = .
...
replace a = cond(uniform() < 0.5, 1, 2) if b == 10
...
I don't know if that's quite what you want. I guess
there's a typo in your last sentence in any case.
Nick
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Karen Jackson
> I have a concordance (for a large number of codes) that has a
> structure
> something like this:
>
> CATEGORY A CATEGORY B
>
> 1 10
> 20
> 30
> 40
> -------------------------------
>
> 2 10
> 50
> 60
>
> -------------------------------
>
> I have values corresponding to each CATEGORY B code and want
> to aggregate
> these into CATEGORY A codes. My problem is that when the code
> appears in
> both CATEGORY A and CATEGORY B, as in the of CATEGORY B code
> "10", I wish
> to add only 50% of "10" into CATEGORY A code "1" and 50% into
> CATEGORY B
> code "2". Any ideas?
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