Re: st: loop with egen

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

you need to supply a varlist as in

foreach v of var mpg turn weight {

Rich

On 2/8/13 8:29 AM, Nahla Betelmal wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
> 
> I am trying to generate the mean and standard deviation for more than
> 30 variables. I tried to do that using the following loop
> 
> foreach v of var {
> egen mean = mean(`v')
> egen sd = sd(`v')
> }
> 
> however, it only generate the mean and standard deviation for the
> first variable only.
> 
> I got this message :mean already defined
> r(110);
> 
> what should I add to the loop , so it can generate the mean and
> standard deviation for each variable in separate column?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Nahla
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