egen var3 = rowmax(var1 var2)
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Stat List wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
>
> If I have two variables with numeric contents, is there any Stata command to
> compare them, and get the maximum into another variables?
>
> Example, comparing (elements by elements) var1 and var2, and then creating
> var3=max(var1, var2)
>
> Var1 var2 var3
> 12 32 32
> 21 12 21
> 3 32 32
> 32 12 32
> .. .. ..
>
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