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[edited title] Re: st: dividing values of a column with other values of the same column
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[edited title] Re: st: dividing values of a column with other values of the same column
Date
Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:43:45 +0000
Please show realistic data and what command you tried.
Nick
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Tzaloupas Dimitrov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well done Nick!It works!!!!!!
>
> I want to ask something else
>
> Having applied your code, my matrix becomes
>
> Country overall specific dates values new variable
> DD gg 0 01/11/2001 5 x1
> DD gg zz 01/11/2001 15 x1
> DD gg 0 01/12/2001 2 x2
> DD gg zz 01/12/2001 15 x2
> DD gg 0 01/01/2002 3 x3
> DD gg zz 01/11/2002 15 x3
> EE gg 0 01/11/2001 0.5 x3
> EE gg zz 01/11/2001 25 x3
> EE gg 0 01/12/2001 0.2 x3
> EE gg zz 01/12/2001 122 x3
>
> I want to plot this new variable for each country using xtline but now my matrix in not in a very nice order
>
> Is there a way to plot this new variable over time for each country?
>
> Many thanks NIck
>
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> Please try my code. If it doesn't work with your data, try to think
> out why not.
>
> Then please read my paper.
>
> If it's not accessible to you, then this paper will be
>
> SJ-2-1 pr0004 . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: How to move step by: step
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
> Q1/02 SJ 2(1):86--102 (no commands)
> explains the use of the by varlist : construct to tackle
> a variety of problems with group structure, ranging from
> simple calculations for each of several groups to more
> advanced manipulations that use the built-in _n and _N
>
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004
>
> By the way, the official Harvard archives show that Statalist
> archiving software just can't cope with Greek characters: see
>
> http://hsphsun3.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1302/Author/article-127.html
>
> If you can find a way to suppress the Greek characters, your posts
> will be easier to read for most Statalist members.
>
> Nick
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