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Re: st: sd() does not work with forvalues
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: sd() does not work with forvalues
Date
Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:13:13 +0100
Richard is correct. The error is that -sd()- is an -egen- function and
as such can only be used in
-egen- calls.
Nick
On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:31, Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
wrote:
my guess is that the error message refers to the line that starts "gen
nosddff`i'" rather than to the egen line -- and that line shouldn't
work
outside the loop either; however, you have already calculated this
value
and saved it in a variable so why not use that variable at that point?
i.e., change the line to
gen nosddff`i'=diffmedi`i'/sddf`i'
Rich
On 7/15/11 1:20 PM, Wilhelm Kluemper wrote:
Hello STATA community,
I am trying out a code where I want to create the standard deviation
of a var as a new var with a loop:
dfbeta
forvalues i = 3/85 {
egen df`i'med = median(_dfbeta_`i')
egen sddf`i'= sd(_dfbeta_`i')
gen diffmedi`i'=_dfbeta_`i'-df`i'med
gen absdiffmedi`i' = abs(diffmedi`i')
gen nosddff`i'= diffmedi`i'/sd(_dfbeta_`i')
drop if nosddff`i'>=2
}
I keep getting this message:
unknown function sd()
It works perfectly without the forvalues loop but not within. Does
anybody have a clue why that is and what I could do about it?
Thanks already
Wilhelm
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