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st: basic question
From
Nadine Brooks <[email protected]>
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st: basic question
Date
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:54:43 -0300
Hi statalist
I am a beginner Stata user and I am having trouble to generate a new
variable. I am using:
gen sal=sum (v9535,v9102,v1022)
and I am getting: v9535,v9102,v1022 invalid name
r(198);
But the names of all the variables are correct, so what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
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