Thanks everyone for calling me out on the no loop part.
On a different note, how can I loop on a single variable ? For
example, let's say if I wanted to loop over the date variable and then
over the cusip variable, how would I go about doing this? I understand
that there is no need to explicitly create loop since I can use gen
variable with built-in loop. However, I want to do this so that I can
understand how loops and postfile work with each other.
Thanks.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 9/11/09, Kushan Thakkar wrote:
>> I have a dataset the contains the following data:
>>
>> cusip ticker date prc ....(few more variables).... RminusI
>>
>> I need to isolate data points for which RminusI is less
>> than its first decile and then post these data points in a
>> different file.
>
> This is not a case for -postfile- or a loop. In the example
> below nlsw88.dta is your master data, grade is your id variable,
> and wage is your RminusI variable.
>
> *---------- begin example --------------
> sysuse nlsw88, clear
> bys grade: egen lb = pctile(wage), p(10)
> keep if wage < lb
> *------------ end example --------------
> ( For more on how to use examples I sent to statalist see:
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
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> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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