Nick,
Thanks - I over looked that.
But I think I misinterpreted the question. If only the last three time
periods are to be summed, then what I originally had is the last three
periods of the cumulative sum over the entire time span. Instead, I believe
this should work:
bysort id (t): gen foo = sum(abs((pip - l.pip)/l.pip)) if t > t[_N -3]
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: st: RE: RE: summation (+ absolute value) formula
>
> In a panel, I guess the second -replace- should
> be -by id:- also. Otherwise _N has the interpretation
> of the number of observations in the dataset, not
> in each panel.
>
> Nick
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