-egen, seq()- exists because someone wanted the
same thing, a while back.
If it didn't exist, both your examples are obtainable
by using functions and _n
. clear
. set obs 16
. gen block = ceil(_n / 4)
. gen cycle = 1 + mod(_n-1, 4)
. list
Nick
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Herb Smith
> 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...
> 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.
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