Re: st: geometric mean saved results

[Russell Dimond <rdimond@ssc.wisc.edu>]

There may well be other issues here, but the immediate problem is easy to 
solve. Just take the quotes out of the definition of gmeanfp3:

local gmeanfp3= r(mean_g)

Otherwise gmeanfp3 is replaced by its value prior to this line, which is 
nothing. So Stata sees

local = r(mean_g)

and gives error message you describe. Hope this helps.


Russell

At 09:49 AM 9/18/2002 -0700, you wrote:

> Subject: st: geometric mean saved results
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to do
> anovas, ranksums, regressions, etc. on the geometric
> mean of a continuous variable--just capturing the
> saved results following a means command ofcourse does
> not work, as below with ranksum:
>
> .quietly means fp3
> .local `gmeanfp3' = r(mean_g)
> .ranksum `gmeanfp3' if `1'~=9999, by(`1')
>
> which gives me an error message of "_= invalid name".
>
> Any suggestions at all would be much appreciated.
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