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st: AW: about 'forvalues' loop


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: about 'forvalues' loop
Date   Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:33:25 +0200

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The line

*************
bysort cy: gen kstck = 0
*************

is no different from - gen kstck = 0- as there is nothing specific about
"cy" in the -generate- statement.


You -generate- one "kstck", but then -replace- several others, like
"kstck1992". Make sure they do exist the moment you want to -replace- them!
What is the error message?


HTH
Martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Marwan Elkhoury
Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. September 2009 13:30
An: [email protected]
Betreff: st: about 'forvalues' loop

dear statalist,

sorry again to bother you with some very stupid question but I'm  
getting stuck again on some simple matter that I believe is in the  
writing of scalar.

the story is that I have a panel data and I'ld like to generate a new  
variable called kstck (by country (cy)).

so I run this loop:

bysort cy: gen kstck = 0
reshape wide gdp gfc kstck, i(cy) j(yr)

* Calculate capital stock from 1990 to 2000 using the following  
formula (where gfc* is the investment in year *)

bysort cy: replace kstck1990 = gfc1990

forvalues i = 1991/2000 {
bysort cy: replace kstck`i' = .93*kstck`i-1' + gfc`i'
}

However, it is not giving me the required result of the recursive  
summation.  why ?

any advice would be most welcome.

and many thanks in advance.

Marwan
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