RE: st: Display one observation

["Cohen, Elan" <cohened@upmc.edu>]

bys year (cusum): gen last = _n==_N
list year cusum if last

- Elan
 

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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Skipper Seabold
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 14:07
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Display one observation
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
> <dvmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If your sums is monotonic, as it appears to be, I think 
> this should work:
> >
> 
> It is.
> 
> > bys year: egen maxcs=max(cusum)
> >
> > I get this:
> >
> > year    cusum   maxcs
> > 2000    2       8
> > 2000    4       8
> > 2000    6       8
> > 2000    8       8
> > 2000            8
> > 2000            8
> > 2001    5       12
> > 2001            12
> > 2001    6       12
> > 2001    12      12
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks, but I don't want to create a new variable.  I should've said,
> I'd ideally like to write a loop and then have something that looks
> like
> 
> 8
> 12
> 
> spit back to me at the prompt.  Right now I have to browse by what I
> need and copy and paste the last observation, which is rather tedious.
> 
> Skipper
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