Dear Statalisters,
I think what I have is a simple logic question involving replace. I can't
seem to find a related question in the list archive.
I have data which looks something like:
x y z
- - -
A A
A A
A B A
A B A
B B
B B
I want 'z' to be all "A"s but this involves replacing 'z' with a value of
'x' which is found on a different observation line. The problem is that the
amount of times 'x' and 'y' overlap throughout the dataset is not
consistent, and therefore I cannot use the x[_n-1] syntax for replacing. I
think I could use a for-loop but I'm not sure. Does anyone see how to go
about this?
Thanks very much,
Terra Curtis
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