encode (see [d] encode) has long been one of Stata's basic data-management commands, encode maps the distinct strings of a string variable to an integer-valued numeric variable for which the strings become value labels. Unless you specify a preexisting set of value labels through its label...
-encode- is creating a numeric version of your string variable with value labels equivalent to the strings in the oldvar. Your -joinby- results are unexpected (at least to you, not to Stata) only because you are looking at the value labels, not the values, and -merge-/-joinby-/etc ...
Title encode — Encode string into numeric and vice versa stata.com Syntax Options for decode Menu Remarks and examples Description Reference Options for encode Also see Syntax String variable to numeric variable encode varname if in , generate(newvar) label(name) noextend Numeric variable to ...
I'm using Stata 11.2. Here is my code: foreach var of varlist IntegrT_Stage_Algo Nodes_Positive IntegrTNM_Stage_Algo_No_assumpti InvStatus { encode `var', gen(v2`var') } this is my error message: option gen() incorrectly specified r(198); I guess what I would also like once I...
(table shows unique values only,sorted alphabetically, like Stata doesit) Var1 Var2 Var3 A B A B C B C After encoding Var1 will be coded as 1=A, 2=B, 3=C; Var2: 1=B, 2=C; Var3: 1=A,2=B, which is in all probability not what moleps islon ...
So say -la drop cntry- in addition to dropping the variable... HTH Martin --- Original-Nachricht --- > Datum: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:29:40 -0600 > Von: "Mike Kim" <kalisperos@gmail.com> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Betreff: st: Encode generates a wrong list > Dear...
Then, I dropped 10 countries and wanted to generate > a > new label list by the following code: > > drop cntry > encode cntrystr, gen(cntry) > > However, Stata gives the same 60 countries. This is a problem because I > want > to use "forvalues i=1/50 {... }" for my ...
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| a b c d 1 2 3 4 | +---+ In this example, each variable adds an extra different value, but Stata just adds a new value label. It is true that the labels are not guaranteed to be in alphabetical order when you do it in sequence. (Start with -var4-, for example, ...
named newvar. Unlike decode, sdecode creates an output string variable containing the values of the input variable as output by the tabulate command and other Stata output, instead of decoding all unlabelled input values to missing. sdecode is especially useful if ...