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Re: st: running product


From   Gary Longton <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: running product
Date   Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:36:30 -0800

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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