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st: implementing a counter


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: implementing a counter
Date   Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:36:18 -0400

Annemarie said

> generate byte total_sum =0
>
> for each variable of varlist {
> if age > 50
> total_sum = total_sum + age
> }
>

This looks like syntax from some alternative software where you have to loop over the observations. You never have to do that in Stata to generate a summary statistic. If what you mean is the sum of the observations on age conditional on age>50,

summarize age if age>50
scalar sumage = r(sum)
display "The sum is " sumage

If you are trying to compute a number, store it as a scalar, not in a new Stata variable.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


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