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Re: st: dot product across many variables
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Paul Burkander <[email protected]>
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Re: st: dot product across many variables
Date
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:11:47 -0500
ah, that's great. Much better than having to learn mata in day.
Thanks!
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Consider a loop
>
> gen newdummy = 0
>
> forval j = 2000/2010 {
> replace newdummy = newdummy + firstdummy`j' * seconddummy`j'
> }
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Paul Burkander <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a data set that has two binary variables in each of several
>> years. I'd like to create a new variable that is the sum across all
>> years of the product of the two within year.
>>
>> For example,
>> firstdummy2000=1
>> seconddummy2000=0
>> firstdummy2001=1
>> seconddummy2001=1
>>
>> newdummy=(firstdummy2000*seconddummy2000+firstdummy2001*seconddummy2001)=1
>>
>> There are so many years that it seems cumbersome to do it as above,
>> moreover the years might change over time and I'd like to be flexible.
>>
>> I thought perhaps a matrix command would work, doing a dot product?
>>
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