Re: st: looping through variables that are not consecutive and have common stem in name

[David de Jong <davidcdejong@gmail.com>]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for all of that, and for pointing out the variable mix-up. Time
for my afternoon coffee, apparently.

Much appreciated!

Best,

David
~
David C. de Jong, MA
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
University of Rochester
214 Meliora Hall
Rochester, NY 14627


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something this should be sufficient:
>
> gen count_sub300 = 0
>
> qui foreach v of var correct* {
>      replace count_sub300 = count_sub300 + (`v' < 300)
> }
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. You said that you were only interested in the -time*- variables,
> but your code looks at the -correct*- variables.
>
> 2. `v' < 300 & `v' < . reduces to `v' < 300.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
> On 15 January 2014 21:12, David de Jong <davidcdejong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the variables time1 correct1 time2 correct2 etc.
>>
>> I'd like to loop through only the time variables, counting values that
>> are under 300 and not missing. I'm trying to use something like this:
>>
>> qui forval j = 1/164 {
>>
>> qui foreach v correct`j' {
>>
>> replace count_sub300 = count_sub300 + (`v' < 300 & `v' < .)
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> It's not working. I'm quite sure that the 2nd line is not correct, but
>> can't figure out what it should be. Can anyone advise?
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