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Re: st: Choosing the Minimum Value and Recording Variable Name
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Ryan Kessler <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Choosing the Minimum Value and Recording Variable Name
Date
Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:07:55 -0400
How about something like this?
input id drug1 drug2 drug3
1 0 10 100
2 100 10 0
3 10 0 100
end
egen min=rowmin(drug*)
gen min_var = ""
foreach v of varlist drug* {
replace min_var = "`v'" if `v' == min
}
Best,
Ryan Kessler
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Erika Kociolek <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am working with a dataset that looks like this:
>
> id drug1 drug2 drug3 drug4 drug5 drug6
> 1 10 20 30 . . .
> 2 40 30 . 50 . .
>
> I'd like write code that finds the minimum value of drug* and for each
> observation, puts the name of the variable with this minimum value in
> a new variable (let's call it minimum_var), i.e.:
>
> id drug1 drug2 drug3 drug4 drug5 drug6 minimum_var
> 1 10 20 30 . . . drug1
> 2 40 30 . 50 . . drug2
>
> I would prefer to do this without reshaping the data, and know that I
> will need to account for ties.
>
> Thank you in advance for your assistance!
>
> Erika
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