Dear Statalist,
I have a question regarding the `x' notation. I've looked through the
Statalist archive and found some hints but I can't seem to make it work how
I want.
I have a forvalues loop I'm trying to run:
forvalues x=1989(1)2005 {
forvalues y=1(1)12 {
if `x'==2005 & `y'>8 continue
gen
mktgprof`y'`x'=(det`y'`x')/(det`launchdatemo'`launchdateyr')
}
}
And when I run that I get the following error:
det ambiguous abbreviation
r(111);
end of do-file
r(111);
After some experimenting I know that the problem lies in
the(det`launchdatemo'`launchdateyr') part. I need the denominator to refer
to, for example, the variable det11989 if launchdate (one of my variables)
for that observation is equal 1/1/1989. I have created two variables,
launchdatemo and launchdateyr which are the launch date month and year,
respectively. That's what I'm trying to refer to in the denominator above.
Is there some other way or some other notation I can use to refer to these
values?
Thanks,
Terra
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