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RE: st: RE: Taking averages, etc.


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Taking averages, etc.
Date   Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:30:24 -0000

Let's not lose sight of where we started. 
Stata has standard constructs 

if ... { 
	
} 
else { 
	
} 

too; the point is that the conditional 
testing cannot be vectorised. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Richard Williams
> 
> To me, an if-then-else structure is simpler, 
> clearer and less 
> error prone.  Not only is it used by SPSS, it is used by 
> most programming 
> languages I have worked with.  And, it is easy enough to 
> add comments 
> explaining what the code does, which I think should be done 
> with anything 
> you might go back to 6 months later.


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