Well, thanks, but on a more general level, one should never generate a whole
vector of a constant value in Stata (at least I cannot think of a reasonable
case where you would need it...). You were throwing away resources with your
-egen- line and I avoided that, that`s all.
Best
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: obs no of max value
wow! that was impressive. Thank you.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> As long as you do not want to use -by- you can
>
> ***********
> sysuse auto, clear
> su trunk, mean
> g byte maxtag=1 if trunk==r(max)
> ***********
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:16 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: obs no of max value
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Suppose I have a variable " Age". I wish to find out at which
> observation does age have a max at. One way to do this is to write a
> while loop. I think that's horrid.
>
> I guess I could do : -
>
> egen mAge=max(Age)
>
> gen index=_n if Age==mAge
>
> But this puts the right value of _n only in ONE observation. I can
> play around with 0's and use egen total to get this in ALL
> observations , but I was wondering if anyone knew a DIRECT way of
> doing this in one go.
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim,
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