FACTMERG: Stata module to merge a list of factors to create string variables

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: factmerg inputs a list of factors and outputs up to 3 string variables, containing, in each observation, the name, variable label and value, respectively, of the first factor in the list with a nonmissing value in that observation. These string variables can be used in creating row labels for output tables and/or plots, possibly using the sencode package. The input factors are usually either created in a parmest or parmby output data set by using the factext package, or are in a data set created by concatenating multiple xcontract output data sets using dsconcat. The sencode, parmest, factext, xcontract and dsconcat packages are downloadable from SSC.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 7.0
Keywords: data; manipulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2001-07-06
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install factmerg". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/factmerg.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/factmerg.hlp help file (text/plain)

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