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st: Re: egen total()


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: egen total()
Date   Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:07:27 -0500

No, because egen total does not accept a varlist. It accepts an exp, as does generate. This is the source of your problem.

total(exp) (allows by varlist:)
creates a constant (within varlist) containing the sum of exp. Also
see mean().

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Nov 5, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Teresa wrote:


As it turns out, egen [var] = rowsum([varlist]) is equivalent to
egen [var] = total([varlist]).
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