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st: RE: R: Merging obervations of two variables


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: R: Merging obervations of two variables
Date   Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:26:52 +0200

Carlo,

what is your example supposed to add as an additional insight? The way you
construct your dataset, the -if- qualifier is always true. 

**********
clear*
set obs 10
g time=10*(uniform())
g target_var=time
**********

brings about the same result...


HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlo Lazzaro
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: 'Beatrice Crozza'
Subject: st: R: Merging obervations of two variables

Dear Beatrice,
If I have understood your query well, it seems that the problem lays in a
misuse in & operator in your first syntax sketch. 

Please try the following one:
-------------begin example------------
set obs 10
g time=10*(uniform())
g code=1 in 1/10
replace code=2 in 3/6
g target_var=time if code==1 | code ==2
-------------end example------------

HTH and Kind Regards,

Carlo
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di Beatrice Crozza
Inviato: mercoledì 15 ottobre 2008 0.39
A: [email protected]
Oggetto: st: Merging obervations of two variables

Dear all,

maybe this is a simple question, but I don't know how to overcome my
problem.

I have a variable time and I should generate another variables equal
to time when another variable (code) is equal to 1 or 2.

However, I don't know how to instruct stata for this.

I tried with:
gen time1= time if code==1 & code==2

but of course I will have all missing values.

Thus, I created two variables:
gen time1= time if code==1
gen time1= time if code==2

but I would like to merge the values of the two variables at this point.

Any idea of how to do this?

Thank you.

Best,
Bea
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