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Re: st: Replacing all values
From
Eric Booth <[email protected]>
To
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Replacing all values
Date
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:59:23 +0000
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Use -mvdecode- :
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mvdecode * , mv(99)
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**more generally, you can use -ds- to help avoid typing out varlists**
ds, has(type numeric)
foreach v in `r(varlist)' {
replace `v' = . if `v'==99
**or**
recode `v' (99=.)
}
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- Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
On Jan 15, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
> I have a dataset in which missing data has been coded as 99. I would like to replace all 99 values with "."
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> I know how to replace values for each variable but typing the command for each variable is time consuming.
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> Is there a command that can replace values for all variables without having
> to type in each variable name?
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> Thanks,
> Jonathan
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