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Re: st: looping with tolerance level
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: looping with tolerance level
Date
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:56:49 +0200
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Andres Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to do a loop per observation with a tolerance level. In concrete, I
> want to increase the payment (k) until I get a probability (prob) close to 0.5
>
> program med, rclass
> set trace on
> forvalues j=1/33 {/* looping across observations*/
> forvalues k=1/1 {/* looping across level of payment starting from 1*/
> scalar prob`j'_`k'=(probability expression including `j' and `k')
> scalar tolerance=abs(0.5-prob`j'_`k')
>
> if tolerance<=0.001 {continue} else {k=`k'+1}
> }
> }
>
> end
> med
>
> However, line 4 and 8 are causing me problems. I appreciate any advice.
line 4-8 need to be a while loop, see -help while-
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