Re: st: systematically creating new observations

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 18:59 18/06/2004, Daphna Bassok wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I am wondering if anyone can recommend a way to systematically create 
> observations.
>
> Suppose I have a set of observations that looks something like this:
>
> #Points
> Female415896
> Male420897
>
>
> What I want to do is create a new observation (not a new variable), called 
> ALL so that the data would look something like this:
>
> #Points
> Female415896
> Male420897
> All8351793
>
>
> Of course, I need to do this more than once.  I have to do it for 
> thousands of groups.
>
> Is there a systematic way to add such an observation?
>
> It seems pretty obvious but I cannot seem to figure it out.
You could do this using the -ingap- package, downloadable from SSC. In 
Stata, type

ssc desc ingap

to find out more, and type

ssc install ingap

to install -ingap-. Then type

help ingap

to find out more about how to use -ingap-.

I hope this helps.

Roger


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