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Re: st: St: loop within a loop
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Christopher Zbrozek <[email protected]>
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Re: st: St: loop within a loop
Date
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:34:12 -0400
Nick is of course correct - my apologies!
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Further, this is not a problem in nested loops; the loops are parallel.
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 30 April 2013 16:27, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Not so. Second time round the inner loop, -generate- will fail as
>> `varname' already exists.
>>
>> Also, eth = `mynum' needs to use == not =.
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 30 April 2013 16:22, Christopher Zbrozek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> Something along these lines should work:
>>>
>>> foreach varname in "white" "black" "hispanic" "asian" "mixed" {
>>> forvalues mynum = 1/5 {
>>> gen `varname' = 0
>>> replace `varname' = 1 if eth = `mynum'
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Christopher Zbrozek
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Adam Guerrero <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to create a loop within a loop for the following block of
>>>> code (loop through variables white, black, hispanic, asian, and mixed
>>>> from values 1 to 5):
>>>>
>>>> replace white=1 if eth==1
>>>> generate black=0
>>>> replace black=1 if eth==2
>>>> generate hispanic=0
>>>> replace hispanic=1 if eth==3
>>>> generate asian=0
>>>> replace asian=1 if eth==4
>>>> generate mixed=0
>>>> replace mixed=1 if eth==5
>>>>
>>>> I know decode would be easier, but please consider responding to help
>>>> me out learning how to loop.
>>>>
>>>> I'm relatively new to Stata, so any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Adam Guerrero
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