Pezzini,S (pgr)
>
> as my programming skills are very low, I would like to ask
> if someone could help me get around a problem that I've
> been trying to solve without success.
>
> The starting point is a dataset with inflation for years
> from 1900 to 1995 and some country codes.
> I would like to use the max and sdev function in order to
> compute the maximum and the standard deviation of inflation
> over an interval from 1920 (and successive decades) to
> every year between 1975 and 1995, by country.
> If I type:
>
> by ccode: egen maxinf=max(inflation) if year>=1920
>
> this only allows me to compute max and sdev over 1920 and
> 1995, i.e. I get a constant over the whole time interval,
> not staggered by year. I can't get to incorporate the
> information "compute the standard deviation or the max UP
> TO EACH YEAR IN THE INTERVAL [1975; 1995]".
>
> Maybe my request will be clearer if I tell you that I was
> able to get what I wanted with another function, sum.
> By typing:
> by ccode: gen cuminf=sum(abs(inflation)) if year>=1920
> I was able to compute the cumulative inflation from 1920 up
> to each year in the interval [1975; 1995]. This was
> possible because "gen y=sum(x)", computes a sum where the
> j-th obs on y contains the sum of the first through j-th
> observations on x.
>
> Finally, I am using Stata 7.0 SE in Windows environment.
>
> Maybe this is a straightforward problem for you, so I would
> be very grateful if you could point me to a solution.
>
In addition to Nick Winter's comments, note
that -egenmore- on SSC includes a -record()-
function for -egen-.
Nick
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