Sorry! Just found seq( ) within -egen- ; hadn't been able to think of the
right keywords, but belatedly realized it must be an -egen- sort of
command...
Best,
--Herb
Professor of Sociology and
Director, Population Studies Center
230 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk CR
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Herb Smith wrote:
> Sorry for the "insider" nature of this post.... But if there are any of
> you out there who remember running log-linear models under the GLIM
> program, you will remember a nifty function for creating "factors" for
> contingency tables. The command
>
> CALC newfac = %GL(r,n)
>
> would create a variable (if I recall correctly) of 1,...,r in blocks of n
>
> This meant that to input a high-dimensional (or any dimensional)
> contingency table, one needed to only input the counts. The structure of
> the table (R x C, or R x C x G, etc.) could be accomplished quickly by the
> %GL command.
>
> So, in brief, I am looking for a command that creates a variable like:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
>
> and another like
>
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 1
> 2
> 2
> 2
> 2
>
> and so on.
>
> If no %GL like command exists, fine; I'm sure I can figure out a short way
> to program this; but if such a command does exist, it would be good to
> know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Herb
>
> Professor of Sociology and
> Director, Population Studies Center
> 230 McNeil Building
> 3718 Locust Walk CR
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia, PA 19104-6298
>
> [email protected]
>
> 215.898.7768 (office)
> 215.898.2124 (fax)
>
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