I suspect that this is clearer. It isn't
necessary to -tokenize-. In terms of
speed, I guess the difference is between
a blink and a wink.
unab myvars : price-foreign
qui foreach v of local myvars {
local others : list myvars - v
local first : word 1 of `others'
gen max_`v' = `first'
local others : list others - first
foreach w of local others {
replace max_`v' = max(max_`v', `w')
}
}
Nick
[email protected]
> But this is faster, as it reduces the
> interpretive overhead of ploughing through
> -egen- repetitively.
>
> unab myvars : price-foreign
> qui foreach v of local myvars {
> local others : list myvars - v
> tokenize `others'
> gen max_`v' = `1'
> local others : list others - 1
> foreach w of local others {
> replace max_`v' = max(max_`v', `w')
> }
> }
> > unab myvars : ab-AB
> > foreach v of local myvars {
> > local others : list myvars - v
> > egen max_`v' = rowmax(`others')
> > }
Steve Vaisey
> > > I have been wrestling with a problem for a while, and
> I've finally
> > > decided to bring it to you for what will probably be an
> > embarassingly
> > > quick solution. Here's the problem. Thanks to Nick, I have
> > a program
> > > (-myboolean-) that turns fuzzy sets into multiset fuzzy
> > > intersections.
> > > So, for example, with fuzzy sets A and B, running -myboolean A B-
> > > yields four new variables: ab Ab aB AB (where lower = absence
> > > [1-set],
> > > upper = presence [set], and -- for example -- AB =
> > min(A,B)). Enough
> > > background I hope.
> > >
> > > What I'd like to do now is to create new variables that
> contain the
> > > maximum value of all OTHER configurations for each configuration
> > > produced by -myboolean-. Manually, this is easy to do: otherAB =
> > > max(Ab,aB,ab). But with 32 or 64 configuration variables,
> > > this is very
> > > time consuming. Is there a way to automate this so that:
> > > foreach var of varlist ab - AB {
> > > gen other`var' = max(***all other vars in varlist
> but `var'***)
> > > }
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