Re: st: running product

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

Alessandra Franzosi wrote:
> How is it possible to generate in Stata a new variable that is the running product of another one?
You can always exponentiate the sum of the logs.

  gen double rprod = exp(sum(ln(x)))

But it won't take much to exceed numeric storage limits with a running 
product, however it is generated.

- Gary



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