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st: re: rescaling variables


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: re: rescaling variables
Date   Sat, 9 Jul 2005 08:46:24 -0400

As your 7th grade algebra teacher probably told you,

z = x/2 + 5  will take x {-10,10} into the range {0, 10}.

set obs 21
g x = -11 + _n
g z = x/2 + 5
list

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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