Re: st: vreverse when not all possible values of a variable are used by respondents

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 04:06 PM 5/31/2007, n j cox wrote:
> There are at least two ways forward that I can see. One
> is that I should add an option to -vreverse- so that the user
> can spell out what the range really is. As Christopher points
> out, he deals with a ragbag of scales, some 0-4, some 1-5,
> etc. and so the putative range would have to be specified for
> each variable, like it (Likert?) or not. Equivalently,
> somebody could clone my program and add the option,
> naming it something else.
A clunky solution would be to add a few fake cases at the end, give 
them values of 1-5 or 0-4 or whatever, run vreverse, and then drop 
the fake cases.  This could probably be done in a forval loop and/or 
by creating a wrapper for vreverse.


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