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st: RE: r(111) with egen count function
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"Elizabeth Allred" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: r(111) with egen count function
Date
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:57:44 -0400
Thanks, Michael and Nick. I guess I haven't used either for a while and miss-remembered that they don't do the same thing.
>>> On 7/12/2010 at 10:42 AM, in message
<4A1EC00C854DF24688FFBD6B36D0B46601E4BE33@GEOGMAIL.geog.ad.dur.ac.uk>, "Nick
Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This isn't an -update- problem.
>
> The argument saa1 saa2 saa3 is not an expression, so your syntax is
> illegal now and was illegal before the -update-.
>
> An expression is here whatever evaluates to a single number for each
> observation.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Elizabeth Allred
>
> I just updated my ado files and am now having a problem with the -egen-
> function, -count-. Fortunately, -rownonmiss- works.
>
> Stata 11.1 completely up-to-date on Windows.
>
> . egen count1=count(saa1 saa2 saa3)
> saa1saa2saa3 not found
> r(111);
>
> . egen count2=rownonmiss(saa1 saa2 saa3)
>
> . tab count2
>
> count2 | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> 1 | 58 6.18 6.18
> 2 | 187 19.91 26.09
> 3 | 694 73.91 100.00
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total | 939 100.00
>
>
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