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Re: st: basic question
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Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>
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Re: st: basic question
Date
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:59:23 -0400
try
gen sal= (v9535 + v9102 + v1022)
Daniel
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Nadine Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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