Re: st: Marking Levels of Categorical Variable

From	"Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]>
To	"Statalist" <[email protected]>
Subject	Re: st: Marking Levels of Categorical Variable
Date	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:57:18 +0900

bysort var: generate byte more_than_ten = _N >= 10

will work for the ABCDE example (N = 100), but
local N `=_N'
bysort var: generate byte more_than_ten = _N / `N' >= 0.1

is more general, like Friedrich Huebler showed.

Joseph Coveney

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