Date:         Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:01:38 -0500
Reply-To:     "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
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From:         "Peck, Jon" <peck@spss.com>
Subject:      Re: SPSS syntax for comorbidity
Comments: To: Richard Ristow <wrristow@mindspring.com>
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Nor would ANY:

COMPUTE chf = ANY(dx, '39891, etc)

That seems to me to be the clearest syntax (at least if you are not using Python :-)).


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Ristow
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [SPSSX-L] SPSS syntax for comorbidity

At 02:05 PM 4/22/2008, ViAnn Beadle wrote:

[Regarding]
>>+  IF (dx='39891' or dx='4280' or dx='4281' or dx='4289') chf = 1.
>
>The ANY function might be easier to use here.

Quite right. RECODE ... INTO could be easier still; among other
things, it wouldn't require pre-setting the target variables to 0:

RECODE dx
    ('39891', '4280', '4281', '4289' = 1)
    (ELSE                            = 0)
    INTO chf.

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