st: Creating interaction and square variables

["Mike Kim" <kalisperos@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I would like to create interaction and square variables. Let say, I have
three variables x1, x2, x3.

I used to the following code to create interactions and square of x1, x2,
x3.

forv i=1/3 {
  forv j=1/3 {
  gen x`i'x`j'=x`i'*x`j'    //  if `i'<=`j'   : This still creates variables
with missing values.
  }
}

Since x1*x2 = x2*x1, for example, I tried to drop those same variables using
the following code, but got error message: "invalid syntax, r(198)". 

forv i=1/3 {
 forv j=1/3 {
 drop x`i'x`j' if  `i'<`j'
 }
}

Can you please let me know what is wrong in the code? Thank you for your
help in advance.

Mike.

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