recoding problem

[Suzanne Rebecca Neusteter-2]

Hi,

I have a dataset that includes a variable (mnthintrvl), which contains values 1-108. This represents groupings of approximately 30 days. I want to compute a new variable that combines mnthintrvl with another variable that indicates whether an event occurred (incident1) for all 108 categories.

I keep trying variations of the following syntax, but continue to get operator command errors. Can someone help me figure out what I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!

IF ((mnthintrvl = 1 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 1) ((mnthintrvl = 2 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 2) ((mnthintrvl = 3 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 3)....((mnthintrvl = 108 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 108)
EXECUTE .

[William Dudley WNDUDLEY]

Suzanne,
Maybe I am missin gsomethign here
But if  mmnthintrvl and incident are numeric, and if 1 = yes and 0 = no then could you simply

COMPUTE mnthlcrmrt =  mmnthintrvl * incident.

??

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Hi,

I have a dataset that includes a variable (mnthintrvl), which contains values 1-108. This represents groupings of approximately 30 days. I want to compute a new variable that combines mnthintrvl with another variable that indicates whether an event occurred (incident1) for all 108 categories.

I keep trying variations of the following syntax, but continue to get operator command errors. Can someone help me figure out what I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!

IF ((mnthintrvl = 1 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 1) ((mnthintrvl = 2 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 2) ((mnthintrvl = 3 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 3)....((mnthintrvl = 108 &  incident1 = 1) mnthlcrmrt = 108)
EXECUTE .