Re: st: summing variables

["ricardo sierra" <ricardo.sierra@gmail.com>]

Dear Peggy,

egen totalmg=rowtotal(mg_1-mg_108)

should work.

RS





On 7/26/07, P chrisman <peggyc@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I need to find the total mg of a treatment received for each subject. I
> have mg of treatment drug as variables mg_1 for the first dose received
> through mg_108 for the last dose received. I would normally just create
> a variable, e.g. gen totalmg= mg_1 + mg_2 to find the total, but since I
> have 108 doses to sum, I am wondering if there is a more efficient way
> to create the totalmg?
>
> Thanks,
> pc
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