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Re: st: Weights now allowed
From
Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Weights now allowed
Date
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:10:53 +0200
BTW the reason why
. replace ravgexpretage[`i'] = r1expretage[`i'] + r3expretage[`i'] ...
didn't work is the pair of brackets in front of the equal sign. The
commands -generate- and -replace- expects a variable name after the
command and "ravgexpretage[`i']" is not a valid variable name. Stata
therefore interprets all that is inside [] as a weight and claims that
weights are not allowed with -replace.
Note that -generate-/-replace- expect an "expression" behind the equal
sign and "r1expretage[`i']" is valid syntax for an expression.
If you would realy need to do want you wanted to do the code would have
been
. sysuse auto
. gen myvar = .
. forv i = 1/10 {
. replace myvar = mpg[`i'] in `i'
. }
But you should never do something like that with Stata!
Uli
Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2012, 14:24 -0400 schrieb Daniel Almar de
Sneijder:
> wow its a miracle, it actually works
>
> thanx
>
> i'll still go for tiger :)
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Scholes, Shaun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are you sure? Try:
> >
> > clear
> > input x1 x2 x3
> > . 1 2
> > 2 2 3
> > 4 . .
> > end
> >
> > egen tiger = rowmean(x1-x3)
> > list tiger
> >
> > Sorry, I am a golf fan. Maybe that should be -egen Rory-.
> > best wishes
> > Shaun
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Almar de Sneijder
> > Sent: 13 September 2012 19:05
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: st: Weights now allowed
> >
> > Hello and thanks for the message.
> >
> > The reason I loop over the data is because sometimes only 3 variables have an observation.
> > When I use rowmean then it treats the outcome as 0 if at that row not all observations have a value. So to clarify, I want to obtain the average in this way:
> >
> > x1 x2 x3 avg(x1 x2 x3)
> > . 1 2 1.5
> > 2 2 3 7/3
> > 4 . . 4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried it btw now with 'i' but it still doesnt work???
> >
> >
> > ***** calculates average expretage
> > drop ravgexpretage
> > gen double ravgexpretage = r1expretage
> > forvalues i = 1/30659 {
> > replace ravgexpretage[`i'] = (r1expretage[`i'] + r3expretage[`i'] + r4expretage[`i'] + r5expretage[`i'] + r6expretage[`i'] + r7expretage[`i'] + r8expretage[`i'])/7 }
> > ******
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Joerg Luedicke <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> You would need to type [`i'] instead of [i] since i is a local macro
> >> here (see -help macro- and -help forvalues-). However, there is no
> >> need to loop over all observations in your data, see -help egen
> >> rowmean-.
> >>
> >> J.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Daniel Almar de Sneijder
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> Hello Stata
> >>>
> >>> When I attempt to run:
> >>>
> >>> ***** calculates average exp ret age
> >>> drop ravgexpretage
> >>>
> >>> gen double ravgexpretage = r1expretage
> >>>
> >>> forvalues i = 1/30659 {
> >>> replace ravgexpretage[i] = ( r1expretage[i] + r3expretage[i] +
> >>> r4expretage[i] + r5expretage[i] + r6expretage[i] + r7expretage[i] +
> >>> r8expretage[i] )
> >>> replace ravgexpretage[i] = ravgexpretage[i] *(1/7) }
> >>>
> >>> I receive the message: "weights not allowed"
> >>>
> >>> What is the problem and How can I circumvene this?
> >>> My initial idea was to add all the variables up and then divide it by
> >>> 7, which works. However it only adds the observations up if each
> >>> variable has a observation So that is why I decided to do it like
> >>> this.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Daniel
> >>> *
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> >
> >
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