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RE: st: programming error with -generate-
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"Kieran McCaul" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: programming error with -generate-
Date
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:02:56 +0800
..
Is it interpreting the -x- as meaning hexadecimal?
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard
Williams
Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2010 5:57 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: programming error with -generate-
At 04:48 PM 3/8/2010, Partha Deb wrote:
>For even more head scratching, try this:
>
>clear all
>
>forvalues i=1/6 {
>set obs 10
>gen y = 1.2x + `i'
>tab y
>drop _all
>}
>
>Partha
This is weird. I am not even sure what to search for -- "x" seems
like kind of a broad term! And the internal logic behind the results
isn't obvious to me.
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