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Nothing is wrong, luckily... As -h egen- says about the -count- option: "
creates a constant ... containing the number of nonmissing observations of
exp."
So the surprising result of your last line is easily explained: The
-expression- fed to -count- evaluates to nonmissing -either 0 or 1- for
every one of those five rows of your dataset, and -count- picks up this
number. All it cares about is the fact that the expression is non-missing,
not its content. If you want to -count-, use the standalone -count-...
*************
clear
input x
1
2
3
5
.
end
egen y=count(x)
egen yy=count(x>2)
egen yyy=count(x==2)
//another xmpl,
//20 is not even in the list of values
egen yyyy=count(x==20)
//the following dummy is counted
//it has 5 non-missing entries...
gen byte dummy=x==20
l,noobs
//stand alone -count-
cou if x==2
*************
HTH
Martin
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. August 2009 10:37
An: statalist
Betreff: st: Something wrong with the -count- option in the -egen-?
I typed the following in the stata and found -count- option didn't work
well.
Anything wrong?
clear
input x
1
2
3
5
.
end
egen y=count(x)
egen yy=count(x>2)
egen yyy=count(x==2)
l,noobs
+------------------+
| x y yy yyy |
|------------------|
| 1 4 5 5 |
| 2 4 5 5 |
| 3 4 5 5 |
| 5 4 5 5 |
| . 4 5 5 |
+------------------+
Thank you for any help!
Best regards,
Rose
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