Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
From | francesco manaresi <manaresi@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Re: How to perform calculations on a set of tempvars |
Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:01:41 +0200 |
I created sets of tempvars of the type var_`i'_`x' containing the result of a statistic (say, a p-value) calculated for variable `x' in State `i' I would like to perform calculations and have the result in another macro. For instance, I want the minimum of all the p-values by State. However, Stata does not accept the following syntax: tempvar minimum g `minimum' = min(`var_`i'_*') invalid syntax r(198); I believe this is because Stata doesn't accept asterisks (jolly character) within macronames. Am I right? What can I do alternatively, apart from creating hundreds of real variables? * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/