Re: st: transforming observations

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Your example is a little fuzzy. What is it that you already have, x or
temp or both?

But you can create a new variable like this

gen x = cond(temp <= 0, 0, cond(temp == 30, 1, temp))

To do this for several variables use a -foreach- loop.

Nick

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mintewab Bezabih
<Mintewab.Bezabih@economics.gu.se> wrote:

> I need to transform observations in my dataset (3476 obervations by 40 variables) into categorical variables based on the following set of rules :
>
> observation x=0 if temp<=0
> observation x=1 if temp==30
> observation x=x if temp>=31
>
> As you could imagine it would take me ages to do that one by one. Is there a compact way of doing this?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> minti
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