Thanks to Martin and Eric for showing me how to do this and introducing Dr Cox's -cond()- to me. Thanks a lot.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric A. Booth" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:00 am
Subject: Re: st: Create a new variable based on some other variables
To: [email protected]
> gen b =.
> replace b=1 if a1==1
> replace b=2 if a2==3
> replace b=3 if a3==8
>
>
> On May 20, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Charles Man@CCR wrote:
>
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > If I want to create a new variable based on the values of a few
> > other variables, how can I do that?
> >
> > For instance,
> >
> > Create B
> > If A1=1, then B=1
> > If A2=3, then B=2
> > If A3=8, then B=3
> >
> > Can -gen- or -egen- or -recode- do this job?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles
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