Re: st: RE: intervals of equal width

[Enzo Coviello <enzo.coviello@tin.it>]

At 10.21 18/11/04 +0000, you wrote:
> I can think of dumb ways to do this. Put
> the numlist in a variable, calculate
> the differences and look at the summary
> statistics using -summarize-.
>
> Alternatively do it directly. This
> code (1) assumes an ordered numlist,
> minimum first (2) is not tested much.
>
> tokenize "`numlist'"
> local nn : word count `numlist'
> local max = 0
> local min = .
> forval i = 2/`nn' {
>         local j = `i' - 1
>         local diff = ``i'' - ``j''
>         local min = min(`diff',`min')
>         local max = max(`diff',`max')
> }
> di "`min' `max'"
Many thanks Prof Cox, particularly for your "direct" advice.
Actually I thought that a simpler solution would be possible.

Anyway it looks effective. I will adopt it.
Thanks again.

Enzo





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