Standardize command in Stata?

[Francois Durant]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone is aware of a command to standardize variables in Stata. Please let me know. Thanks!

[Joseph Coveney]

help egen

[Clyde Schechter]

Note that if your sole purpose in standardizing variables is to obtain standardized regression coefficients, you can specify the -beta- option in -regress-, or the -standardized- option in SEM to do that. The advantage of that over standardizing the variables is that those programs will automatically give results appropriate for standardization of the variables based on the estimation sample. When you standardize them yourself, as with -egen-, you may not yet know which observations to include in the standardization.

[Francois Durant]

Thanks a lot!