Re: st: How to put max and min values in a loop

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This is likely to be wrong for several reasons.

-min()- and -max()- in this context can only be Stata functions and
each requires two or more arguments. This is not quite explicit in the
help.

Also, even when legal, statements including -min()- or -max()- will
only evaluate within observations.

You assume that we know what you want to do, which is not true.
However, we can guess that you want minimum and maximum of some
variable, in which case -summarize- first will give you r(min) and
r(max), which you can use within -inrange()-. -summarize, meanonly- is
sufficient if min and max are all you need.

But, but, but: it is vacuous that any variable lies between its
minimum and maximum, so there is no point to doing this unless the
calculation of -summarize- refers to something different, e.g. a
different subset or a different variable.

Nick

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Xixi Lin <winnielxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to use inlist(var, min(var), max(var)) in a loop; however,
> min(var) and max(var) seems to be wrong codes, does anyone know how to
> code it in a right way?
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