El Wednesday 22 October 2008 07:52:02 Irwin, James R escribió: > Hi folks. What is the GRETL translation of the command "REPLACE ... IF" > in STATA? > > Specifically, in STATA I would use REPLACE W=. IF L==0 to > change my data in STATA (making the variable W missing if the variable L > is zero). > > Messing around in GRETL I have come up with the following 3 lines: > > smpl L=0 --restrict > genr W=NA > smpl --full > > Is there a simpler/briefer way to do this is GRETL? Maybe using IF? > Thanks for any suggestions -- jim irwin (economic historian, moving from > STATA to GRETL).
May be the following command works as you want: series W=W*misszero(L)/L -- Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza DEPARTAMENTO DE ECONOMÍA APLICADA III (ECONOMETRÍA Y ESTADÍSTICA) UPV/EHU Avda. Lehendakari Aguirre, 83 | 48015 BILBAO T.: +34 946013732 | F.: +34 946013754 www.et.bs.ehu.es