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Re: st: compare variables


From   "Sebastian F. B�chte" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: compare variables
Date   Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:40:35 +0200

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Sebastian


2007/8/30, Stat List <[email protected]>:
> 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
> ..      ..      ..
>
> I think  I can write the loop for all observations, but I think that Stata
> have this kind of command that I just don't know yet.
>
> Any help? Thanks so much
> Stat
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