Right - I often try to use the varlist when I should be using the
expression.
Thanks for pointing this out to me.
Terri
Kit Baum wrote:
>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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