unab myvars : ab-AB
foreach v of local myvars {
local others : list myvars - v
egen max_`v' = rowmax(`others')
}
Nick
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Steve Vaisey
> I have been wrestling with a problem for a while, and I've finally
> decided to bring it to you for what will probably be an embarassingly
> quick solution. Here's the problem. Thanks to Nick, I have a program
> (-myboolean-) that turns fuzzy sets into multiset fuzzy
> intersections.
> So, for example, with fuzzy sets A and B, running -myboolean A B-
> yields four new variables: ab Ab aB AB (where lower = absence
> [1-set],
> upper = presence [set], and -- for example -- AB = min(A,B)). Enough
> background I hope.
>
> What I'd like to do now is to create new variables that contain the
> maximum value of all OTHER configurations for each configuration
> produced by -myboolean-. Manually, this is easy to do: otherAB =
> max(Ab,aB,ab). But with 32 or 64 configuration variables,
> this is very
> time consuming. Is there a way to automate this so that:
> foreach var of varlist ab - AB {
> gen other`var' = max(***all other vars in varlist but `var'***)
> }
>
> One final note: in the crisp set case (where set membership is always
> 0/1) other`var' would always = 1-`var'. But this is not true in the
> fuzzy case. Hence the difficulty.
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