At 02:04 PM 8/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I know that in SPSS there is way to set a filter for a series of commands
using a 'do if' statement. Is there a way to do this in STATA? For
example, I want to perform a large set of analyses on a set of groups
(group == 1....group == 50). Do I have to continue to type if group == 1
after each command? ex:
tab race if group == 1
tab sex if group == 1
tab race sex if group == 1
tab race if group == 2
tab sex if group == 2
tab race sex if group == 2
or, is there a way to globally set off group == 1 for all analyses then a
command to globally set off group == 2 for all analyses, and so
on...? The above code seems too cumbersome.
There are a number of approaches you can use:
1) bys group: tab race * etc */
2) forvalues i = 1/ [put the highest value of group here]{
*/ all of your analyses here */
tab race if group == `i'
tab sex if group ==`i'
tab race sex if group == `i'
}
Fred Wolfe
Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125 Fax (316) 263-0761
[email protected]
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