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Re: st: RE: Loops and counter
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Loops and counter
Date
Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:08:37 +0000
I agree with Sarah's general advice.
I also note that the factor 365.24/365.24 surely cancels to 1.
Nick
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Sarah Edgington <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you're looking for something along the lines of :
> gen total=0
> forvalues i=1/14 {
> replace total=total+a`i'*b`i'*365.24
> }
>
> replace total=total/(z*365.24)
>
> If you find yourself doing repetitive calculations often, you would likely be well-served by carefully reading the -forvalues- and -foreach- manual entries carefully.
>
> -Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Speidel
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Loops and counter
>
> I am trying to shorten the following expression in Stata:
>
> gen total = ((a1 * b1 * 365.24) + (a2 * b2 * 365.24) + ... + (a14 *
> b14 * 365.24)) / (z * 365.24)
>
> Where a1-a14, b1-b14, z are all continuous variables.
> Typing the expression in full is time consuming. I seem to recall I should be using a loop with a counter to cycle through every value 1-14.
> However, I am not sure how to do that.
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