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Re: st: Re: dummy variable with overlapping if conditions


From   "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: dummy variable with overlapping if conditions
Date   Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:51:14 +0100 (BST)

Austin Nichols replied to Kit Baum:

> Or, allowing for missing values:
>
> gen and = d1&d2 if !mi(d1, d2)
> gen or = d1|d2 if !mi(d1, d2)
> gen xor = cond(d1+d2==1, 1, 0) if !mi(d1, d2)
>
> It's always a good idea to add the "if not missing" clause.

Thanks for this as well.

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