levels catvar, local(uniqlist)
Thomas J. Steichen
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> Stephen R. Hale
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:01 PM
> To: STATA
> Subject: st: unique values
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to the list. Can anyone direct me to an efficient,
> preferrably already existing way to get the unique values of
> a categorical variable into a macro. The goal is just like
> creating a "by", but I need to have the unique values list.
> Let's say I can get the unique values in the macro uniqlist.
>
> I then want to be able to loop over all unique values in the list
>
> Foreach uniqval of local `uniqlist' {
> execute code
> }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen R. Hale, Ph.D.
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