egen: Convert a continuous variable into groups

In myominnoo/mStats: Medical Statistics & Epidemiological Analysis

Convert a continuous variable into groups

Description

This function was deprecated because we realized that it's a special case of the cut function.

Usage

egen(data, var, at = NULL, label = NULL, new_var = NULL, ...)

Arguments

data	data.frame
var	existing variable
at	either a number or a numeric vector
label	Labels for the groups
new_var	Name of the new variable
...	Additional arguments to be passed to cut

See Also

cut

Examples

data <- data.frame(x = 1:10)
egen(data, x, at = c(3, 7), label = c("low", "medium", "high"))
egen(data, x, at = c(3, 7), label = c("low", "medium", "high"), new_var = "group")

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