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Re: st: forvalues
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Re: st: forvalues
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Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:02:43 +0100
Yes, you're right,
so using levelsof takes care of these issues because it is more general.
Thanks again
On 23 October 2012 13:52, Henrik Støvring <[email protected]> wrote:
> Glad it worked, but actually I think, I was spot on: There is no value
> of 1 in your "single" variable, as documented by -levelsof-. You could
> account for this by using:
>
> forvalues i = 2/53 {
> ...etc...
>
> although you again would run into trouble with no observations having
> single equal to 40, 41, 44, etc. In short levelsof is the right solution
> here, but you gave the impression that the single variable had all
> values from 1 to 53, which was indeed not the case.
>
> Best,
>
> Henrik
>
>
> On 10/23/2012 02:45 PM, - wrote:
>> Thank you,
>> there was no problem in the dataset, the "single" variable is made up
>> of integers between 1 and 53.
>> Because I tried lots of different things, it seemed to have a problem
>> with using " forvalues i = ....", without declaring anything first,
>> and similarly when I was trying to give the value of i to the "single"
>> variable in the "if(single=='i')" expression.
>> Eventually I was able to get it to work by writing the following:
>>
>> . levelsof single, local(singles)
>> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
>> 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 42 43 49 50 51 53: this was output
>>
>> . foreach single in `singles' {
>> 2. tabstat agein2009 if(single==`single'), by(sexcat) stats(mean sd
>> n min max median p10 p25 p75 p90)
>> 3. }
>>
>> Then I got the output of the tables I need, iteratively, for each
>> value of "single".
>>
>> Thank you for helping.
>>
>>
>> On 23 October 2012 13:20, Henrik Støvring <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> ...which sounds like a problem of the dataset, not of the code. Try a
>>> codebook of the variable -single- to see what values, it actually contains:
>>>
>>> codebook single
>>>
>>> -Henrik
>>>
>>> On 10/23/2012 02:14 PM, - wrote:
>>>> 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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>>> *Henrik Støvring, PhD*
>>> Associate professor
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>>> Phone +45 8716 7991
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>>>
>>> Department of Public Health
>>> Biostatistics
>>> University of Aarhus
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>>> DK-8000 Aarhus C
>>> Denmark
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>>>
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>
> --
>
> *Henrik Støvring, PhD*
> Associate professor
> [email protected]
> Phone +45 8716 7991
> Fax +45 8716 7305
> Web: au.dk/en/stovring@biostat <http://au.dk/en/stovring@biostat>
>
>
>
> Department of Public Health
> Biostatistics
> University of Aarhus
> Bartholins Allé 2, Bldg 1261, 217
> DK-8000 Aarhus C
> Denmark
>
>
> Department of Public Health, Aarhus University
>
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