st: Re: Re: no observation in while-loop

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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As you can see, you can take out a lot of fat w/o getting into muscle... 
Unfortunately, -statsby- will only accept -scalar- results, otherwise we 
could even do away with the loop....

HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:05 PM
Subject: st: Re: no observation in while-loop


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>
> Maybe like this:
>
> ***
> u DataBase, clear
>
> su id, mean
> forv i=1/`r(max)'{
> capt reg machines import if id==`i'
> capt predict machfilled`i' if e(sample)
> }
>
> save A, replace
> ***
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
> _______________________
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Baumgarten" <Pandaros@gmx.de>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 8:51 PM
> Subject: st: no observation in while-loop
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a panel with 148 countries (id) over 30 years (time).
> > I need fitted values for one of the variables therefore I created this 
> > while loop
> >
> > local i=1
> > while `i'<=148 {
> > use DataBase.dta
> > keep if id==`i'
> > reg machines import
> > predict machfilled
> > save A`i'
> > local i=`i'+1
> > }
> >
> > However, for some countries, there is no data available and the loop 
> > stops. Then Stata returns "no observations".
> >
> > Is there a way to skip these countries without observations? So that the 
> > loop will not be interrupted.
> >
> > Thank for your help
> >
> > m. baumgarten
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