Jeff,
The most likely problem is that egenmore isn't installed or updated.
-egen record()- is part of the user written egenmore package.
findit egenmore
will bring you to the installation dialogue.
If it is installed, try
adoupdate egenmore
--Carole
On 8/24/07, Jeff Simonson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ultimately, what I want to do is sort through my observations and pick out
> a minimum and maximum for each group and then have that value as a
> constant in a new variable. I am working through Baum's book An
> Introduction to Modern Econometrics using Stata
> and came across page 33 where the author explains use of the record()
> function. The command and function used in the book is:
>
> egen hiwage = record(wage), by(empid) order(year)
>
> I am running Stata9 and entered in a simple set of data to test the
> function.
>
> . list
>
> +-------------------+
> | sid term gpa |
> |-------------------|
> 1. | 1 F01 1.08 |
> 2. | 1 F02 3.1 |
> 3. | 1 F03 3.96 |
> 4. | 1 F04 1.35 |
> 5. | 1 F05 2.87 |
> |-------------------|
> 6. | 2 F02 2.26 |
> 7. | 2 F03 2.63 |
> 8. | 2 F04 3.49 |
> 9. | 2 F05 3.94 |
> +-------------------+
>
> So I figured that the record() function used in conjunction with the
> egen command would give me the highest gpa for the student (sid).
> Here is my command and output.
>
> . egen highgpa = record(gpa), by(sid)
> unrecognized command: _grecord
> r(199);
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
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