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You can nest those -cond()-s, see
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0016
HTH
Martin
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Thank you, Jeph and Martin. This was really helpful.
To add further, is it possible to add another condition to round off weeks
> 0 and <1.5 to become 1 instead of zero while keeping the previous
condition alive?
Regards,
Shehzad
On Feb 6 2009, Martin Weiss wrote:
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><>
>
>Good solution, and in one line. Careful with 1 and 2, though. Does Ali
>really want them to become zero?
>
>*************
>clear*
>set obs 30
>gen weeks=_n
>gen newweek=cond(abs(round(week,12)-week)<=2,round(week,12),week)
>list
>*************
>
>
>
>HTH
>Martin
>
>
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>Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 16:56
>An: [email protected]
>Betreff: Re: st: round () if
>
>
>Assuming your week is integers
>
> gen newweek=cond(abs(round(week,12)-week)<=2,round(week,12),week)
>
>should do.
>
>hth,
>Jeph
>
>
>Shehzad Ali wrote:
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> I want to round a variable 'week' if it is within 2 weeks range of
>> multiples of 12 week. So 10 weeks should become 12 weeks while 9 weeks
>> should not change. Similarly 21 weeks would not change while 25 weeks
>> will change to 24 weeks. Is there a way to do it in Stata using -round-
>> or other command?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Shehzad
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