st: Re: RE: Weights vs subscripts

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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Actually, the better (faster) way to do this is 
replace y=y[`i'-1] +z[`i'] in `i'

Michael Blasnik


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Ogan" <aogan@ArrowstreetCapital.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: st: RE: Weights vs subscripts



> Somebody more knowledgeable will probably explain exactly why you can't
> use subscripts on the left side like that.
>
> But I can suggest a workaround:
>
> replace y=y[`i'-1] +z[`i'] if _n==`i'
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