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Re: st: sum issue (wrong values)
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: sum issue (wrong values)
Date
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:24:35 +0100
This is ambiguous as between the -summarize- command (which can be
abbreviated -sum-) and the -sum()- function, which gives cumulative or
running sums, although it seems you mean the first. In Stata (not
"STATA") commands and functions are quite different families.
Even then, you must show us exactly what you typed and exactly what
Stata did by copying output. Otherwise it is difficult to guess what
is going on. Does -latency_int- have value labels, which are what you
see when you -list-, but not what are -summarize-d? You should show us
the results of
describe latency_int
count
summarize latency_int, detail
Nick
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Christian Bärtsch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a issue using the sum function of STATA. I have a data set,
> where I have a variable called latency_int (type: int; and something
> over 5700 values). I use the command sum(latency_int). There I get the
> minimum of 2 and the maximum of 1999 even though the data set contains
> values from 44 to 81000 (those values are shown when I use
> list(latency_int). It must be a pretty basic mistake, however I have
> not been able to come up with a solution for days.
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