Consider what happens first time round the loop.
i is set to 271 and you ask Stata to put a value
in results[271, 1]. As you only set up a matrix
with 7 rows, this won't work. You don't need
to -rename- your variables, you just need
local I = `i' - 270
matrix results[`I', 1] = ...
and so forth.
Nick
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Hugh Colaco
> I am trying to get the frequency of certain variables and put it in a
> matrix (see code below). I need to cross tabulate each variable
> q271-q277 with each variable q256-q260. I then need to add the
> frequencies of q256-q258 as one group and q259-q260 as the other
> group. Finally, I want to create a 7 x 2 matrix of the results
> (q271-q277 will be the 7 rows; and q256-q258 & q259-q260 will be the 2
> columns).
>
> I ran the following code, but am getting "conformability error". I
> think the problem is that I want a 7 x 2 matrix, but I'm using i =
> 271/277 rather than i=1/7. If this is the case, can you suggest an
> alternative?
>
> P.S. - Right now, I have variables q1-q7. I tried to drop them and
> rename q271-q277 as q1-q7 (in case this was the issue), without much
> luck.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hugh
>
>
> matrix results = J(7,2,.);
>
> forval i = 271/277 {;
> count if q`i'~=. & q256~=.;
> local a = r(N);
> count if q`i'~=. & q257~=.;
> local a = `a' + r(N);
> count if q`i'~=. & q258~=.;
> matrix results[`i',1] = `a' + r(N);
>
>
> count if q`i'~=. & q259~=.;
> local b = r(N);
> count if q`i'~=. & q260~=.;
> matrix results[`i',2] = `b' + r(N);
>
> };
>
> matrix colnames results = NP FP;
> matrix rownames results = q271 q272 q273 q274 q275 q276 q277;
> matrix li results, noheader;
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