st: Re: egen total()

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

No, because egen total does not accept a varlist. It accepts an exp,  
as does generate. This is the source of your problem.

        total(exp)                                           (allows  
by varlist:)
            creates a constant (within varlist) containing the sum  
of exp.  Also
            see mean().

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Nov 5, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Teresa wrote:


> As it turns out, egen [var] = rowsum([varlist]) is equivalent to
> egen [var] = total([varlist]).
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