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st: RE: tabulate with gen


From   <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: tabulate with gen
Date   Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:36:42 +0100

Hi,

Here is something you could do :

levelsof foo, local(levels)
foreach l of local levels {
gen foo_`l' = (foo==`l')
}

I actually faced the same problem a few days ago, and that's what I came
up with.

Hope it helps !

Timothee

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hebe B.
Quinton
Sent: 07 August 2006 16:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: tabulate with gen

Hello -

I use

 tab foo, gen(foo_)

all the time to create dummy variables based on the values of foo - I
get
foo_1, foo_2, etc.

Does any one have a technique (I won't call it a trick) for having the
extension be the actual value of foo?  For example, I have health care
center
numbers that are NOT continuously numbered from 1 to 100, so the dummy
and the
root value quickly get out of synch:

center
1
2
5
6
7
8

tab center, gen(center_)

creates center_3 that corresponds to center==5, center_4 corresponds to
center==6, etc

Seems like a recipe for disaster when generating reports....!

I can generate a do file to rename them, but I though someone else might
have
solved this problem.

Thank you,

Hebe Quinton 
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Clinical Research/Department of Medicine
506 Rubin
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH  03756

(603) 653-3536
Fax (603) 653-3554

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