victor michael zammit writes:
> In version 8 ,how do you get to count the number of P's and
> A's for each Name
>
> Hello Stata listers,
> In version 8 ,how do you get to count the number of P's and
> A's for each Name
>
>
> Name D8 D9 D14 D15 D16 D19
> 1. Z A A P P P A
> 2. G P A P P A P
> 3. S A P P P A A
> 4. An A P P A P P
> 5. Ma P P P P A P
The egenmore function -rcount- would do this:
. egen countA = rcount(D8 D9 D14 D15 D16 D19) , c(@ == A)
. egen countP = rcount(D8 D9 D14 D15 D16 D19) , c(@ == P)
This generates variables whose values are the counts of A's and P's in each observation.
There may be an updated way to to this too...
tom
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