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I am glad to hear that! BTW, and just out of curiosity: What does "also"
mean here? Is your solution not exactly what I recommended?
HTH
Martin
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bysort subject (period) : gen accumcon=sum(con)
also worked! :-)
Thank you very much!
Martin Weiss schrieb:
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>
> Try Nick`s http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004 for
> further explanations...
>
>
>
> *************
> clear*
> set obs 10
> gen byte subject=_n
>
> expand 10
> bys subject: gen byte time=_n
>
> gen con=int(runiform()*20)
>
> bys subject (time): gen accumcon=sum(con)
>
> l, sepby(subject) noo
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
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> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von
> [email protected]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2010 17:49
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: st: Calculating a (changing) accumulative sum
>
> I have 20 "period"s (i.e., 20 rows) of data for each "subject" i. For
> each subject i, I would like stata to calculate the accumulative sum of
> the variable "con" in a new variable "accumcon" in the following way:
>
> In period 1: accumcon = con[1]. In period 2: accumcon = con[1]+con[2]
> In period 3: accumcon = con[1]+con[2]+con[3] and so on, for each
> subject, from period 1 until period 20.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
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