Well, it calculates the endpoint of the rolling min calculation, depending
on the index "i". To make Stata calculate, you put the equal sign in front
of the mathematical expression. Not sure whether it has to be there, but I
want to err on the safe side here...
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: A query about min in stata
Hello Martin,
What is that = doing in that statement starting with " qui " doing. It
works. But why ?
Thank you,
Ashim.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Martin Weiss
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If that is supposed to be some kind of "rolling" estimation,
>
> *************
> sysuse auto , clear
> g rollingmin=.
> forv i =1/65{
> qui su mpg in `i'/`=`i'+9'
> di in red "min in `i' to `=`i'+9': " r(min) _n
> qui replace rollingmin = r(min) in `i'
> }
>
> l rollingmin
> *************
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: st: A query about min in stata
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to do the following : -
>
> I have a variable r. I want to create a variable m=min( r, r[_n-1],
> ... ,r[_n-9])
>
> I guess I can use a while loop to do this but that is quite slow. An
> alternative would be to define r0=r,r1=r[_n-1],..,r9=r[_n-9]
> and then say m=rmin ( r0 r1 ... r9).
>
> My question is that is there a built in way in stata to do this ? like
> say by using egen ?
>
> Thank you all for your time and effort.
>
> Ashim. : )
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