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Re: st: egen rowmin but not value but variable name
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: egen rowmin but not value but variable name
Date
Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:53:22 +0100
Dopey example. Which is minimum of price-gear_ratio in auto data?
sysuse auto, clear
gen which_min = "price"
gen min = price
qui foreach v of var mpg-gear_ratio {
replace which_min = "`v'" if `v' < min
replace min = `v' if `v' < min
}
Nick
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Trelle Sven <[email protected]> wrote:
> it might sound trivial but I was not able to find something in the egen
> or extended macro function help:
>
> I want to create a new variable that contains the variable name that
> holds the minimum value over several other variables per row i.e.
> something like the "egen x= rowmin(y z w)" command but the created
> variable should not contain the row minimum but the variable name that
> contains this minimum.
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