On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:03:52 -0700
"aine dooley" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am finding in Stata that there does not seem to be an easy way to
> increment a counter despite countless trys and readings of the manal.
>
> I want to do something llike the following, this is just an example:
>
> generate byte total_sum =0
>
> for each variable of varlist {
> if age > 50
> total_sum = total_sum + age
> }
>
> Stata doesn't seem to allow the if... then construct unless it is in a
> program. Although I have written a simple program (crazy that I have to do
> this) passing arguments, I still can't get it to work.
>
> I must be missing something.
If you want the running total of each variable in your varlist (which you haven't specified in your example, so I've assumed you have variables a, b and c), you could try...
foreach x of varlist a b c{
gen total_sum_`x' = sum(`x') if(age > 50)
}
Alternatively if you just want total_sum_a etc. to contain the total of all a's where age > 50 you could try...
foreach x of varlist a b c{
egen total_sum_`x' = sum(`x') if(age > 50)
}
More info on what you are trying to achieve would help, and you may benefit frommanual [U] 14. Language Syntax, and the help pages...
-man foreach-
-man forval-
-man if-
-man -egen-
HTH's
Neil
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