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help for genscore                                          Jean-benoit Hardouin
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Module to generate a score

        genscore varlist [if exp] [in range] [, score(newvarname) mean
              missing(string) replace]

Description

    genscore allows creating a new variable containing the score computed as
        the sum (or the mean) of the responses to the variables defined in
        varlist. The new variable will contain a missing value for each
        individual with at least one missing values among the variables of
        varlist.

Options

    score defines the name of the new variable (score by default).

    mean allows obtaining a mean score (the sum of the responses is divided
        by the number of variables).

    missing defines a specific modality of the variables which can be
        considered as a missing value.

    replace allows replacing the variable defined in the score option if it
        already exists.

Examples

    . genscore turn trunk mpg

    . genscore item1-item20, score(totscore) mean missing(9)

    . genscore var*, score(scorevar) replace

Author

    Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Regional Health Observatory (ORS) - 1, rue Porte
        Madeleine - BP 2439 - 45032 Orleans Cedex 1 - France. You can contact
        the author at jean-benoit.hardouin@orscentre.org and visit the
        websites AnaQol and FreeIRT

Also see

    Online:  help for egen, generate and mvdecode