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st: RE: further on the weighted average


From   Lee Sieswerda <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: further on the weighted average
Date   Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:05:57 -0400

The local macro is misspecified in the forvalues loop. Specify your macro
like this:
`i'
rather than like this:
'i'

Regards,

Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
[email protected]




-----Original Message-----
From: Yanjun Bao [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: further on the weighted average


I wrote the following command lines accoridng to the help file.

use ki00_wgt;
egen group=group(site_id);
compress group;

gen wtmean=.;
qui forvalues i = 1/196 {;
      su po4c [w=rsp_wgt] if group == 'i';
      replace wtmean = r(p196) if group p == 'i';
};


Now I got the error message that i is an invalid name.  What should I make
of that?

Thanks,

Carol
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