sorry, the email I wrote, but not my program has those
quotes, and I still get an error message while the
program reads:
capture program drop taball
program define taball
while "`1'" ~="" {
use database1, clear
keep if gender==1
display "ranksum GEOMETRIC MEAN fp3 by `1' "
sort `1'
quietly means fp3
local gmeanfp3 = r(mean_g)
ranksum `gmeanfp3' if `1'~=9999, by(`1')
mac shift
}
end
taball var1 var2
with the error, "time series operators not allowed",
even when the [if `1'~=9999] is removed...
...so I'm still stuck and think that I can't do it in
STATA, but am open to ideas.
--- Russell Dimond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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: [email protected]
> >
> >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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