st: re: creating a count variable

[Kit Baum <kitbaum@mac.com>]

weapons and a 1 if it has nuclear weapons
-year: this is pretty obvious. .

The current coding I have is:

gen nukecount=0
replace nukecount=(nukecount[_n-1]+1) if ((ccode==ccode[_n-1]) &
(nukes==1) & (nukes[_n-1]==1))


How about

bys ccode: gen nukecount = (sum(nukes) > 0)

This does not deal with countries that have gone from nuclear to 
non-nuclear.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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