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Re: st:how to transfer a value to another dataset
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Nina YIN <[email protected]>
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Re: st:how to transfer a value to another dataset
Date
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:46:46 +0200
Great!
It works well.
Thank you very much! Nick.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am unclear what you mean by a "constant variable", nor is it clear
> what -mppid- and -mcs- are in your data, but on one interpretation of
> your problem you just type
>
> gen double id = 4544 + _n
>
> gen double cs = 10646 + _n
>
> If the use of -double- here is mysterious, read
> http://blog.stata.com/tag/format/
>
> You can also do this
>
> su ppid, meanonly
> local mppid = r(max)
> gen <whatever> = <something else> + `mppid'
>
> and so on.
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Nina YIN <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I want to define a constant variable in one data-set from a value
>> generated from another data file. How could I transfer the value
>> across files?
>> For example, I -sum ppid cs,
>> sum ppid cs
>>
>> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
>> -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
>> ppid | 223566 2294.551 1314.803 1 4544
>> cs | 223566 5323.5 3073.242 1 10646
>>
>> now I got the maximum value of ppid and cs(mppid and mcs).
>>
>> Then I open another data, and need to generate variables which is
>> id=_n+mppid, cs=_n+mcs. How could I realize it?
>>
>> Local can only define the strings. I try to tostring mppid, and local
>> it , but it failed.
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Nina YIN
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