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Re: st: forvalues
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Re: st: forvalues
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Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:14:19 +0100
It still won't do it, it says "no observations", but there are
observations there...
On 23 October 2012 13:09, Henrik Støvring <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your accents are off. You need to replace 'i' with `i' - note the
> difference in the first accent.
>
> Best,
>
> Henrik
>
> On 10/23/2012 02:04 PM, - wrote:
>> hello all,
>> I'm trying to build a simple loop, and have looked at Help for
>> "foreach" and "forvalues", but can't get it to work. I just want to
>> set a variable i to take consecutive values from 1 to 53, so use
>> forvalues i=1/53, then give its value to a variable in my data called
>> "single" (refers to the number of samples for each person) which has
>> integer values ranging from 1 to 53, and create tables of statistics
>> for age in men and women. So there would be 53 tables of ages, one for
>> each number of samples, summarized by sex.
>> Haven't use loops in stata before, I write:
>>
>> forvalues i = 1/53 {
>> 2. tabstat age if(single=='i'), by(sexcat) stats(mean sd n min max
>> median p10 p25 p75 p90)
>> 3. }
>>
>> but the message is that 'i' is an invalid name. If I use
>> if(single==i), it says "i not found". Can anyone tell me what I'm
>> doing wrong?
>>
>> Thank you all
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