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| From | "Thirukumaran, Caroline Pinto" <cpt8913@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Check for coding of new variables using data patterns |
| Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:18:56 -0400 |
Thank you, Sergiy. The code works perfectly for my data! On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote: > Caroline, do you mean something like this? > > do http://www.radyakin.org/statalist/2013102201/freqcalc.do > > Best, Sergiy Radyakin > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Thirukumaran, Caroline Pinto > <cpt8913@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Is there a way to check the coding of a newly created variable using >> data patterns of variables that have used to create the new variable? >> >> As an example, newvar is a variable that has been created based on >> values of var1-var5. The code used for creating the newvar variable is >> as follows: >> egen newvar=rsum(var1 var2 var3 var4 var5) >> >> To check that newvar has been correctly coded, it would be helpful to >> have an output like the one below: >> >> newvar var1 var2 var3 var4 var5 Frequency >> 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 >> 1 0 0 0 0 1 20 >> 1 0 1 0 0 0 40 >> 2 0 0 1 1 0 70 >> 2 0 1 1 0 0 80 >> 3 2 0 1 0 0 110 >> 3 1 0 1 0 1 120 >> 4 1 0 1 2 0 130 >> >> -collapse- gives an acceptable output (it does not give me the >> frequency count) only when var1 -var5 are binary. >> >> I am using Stata 12.1 for Windows. >> >> I get the output tabulated above from SAS using the following code: >> proc freq data=abc; >> tables newvar*var1*var2*var3*var4*var5 / list missing; >> run; >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Caroline Thirukumaran >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/