On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:48:20 +0200, [email protected] said:
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> Dear StataListers,
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> since I have already disturbed a colleague who could not help me out I am
> going to confront you with my small problem:
> I want Stata to run a loop from 1 to the maximum of observations in my
> dataset.
> I tried:
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> gen obs2 = _n
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> sum obs2
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> scalar m = r(max)
local m = _N
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> forvalues i=1/`m'{
> ....
> }
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> Which did not work. There is probably a very easy way to do that but I
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> do not know it.
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> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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> Yours,
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> Justina Fischer
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> Dipl.Vw. Justina A.V. Fischer,
> Research Associate
> SIAW - University of St. Gallen
> Bodanstr. 8
> CH-9000 St. Gallen
> Tel.:++41-71-224 2345
> Fax: ++41-71-224 2298
> www.siaw.unisg.ch
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