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Re: st: programming loops efficiently
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: programming loops efficiently
Date
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:10:02 +0000
See the thread starting
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-10/msg00919.html
for both general and specific advice.
Nick
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Breeze, Elizabeth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am creating some variables and I am sure that my syntax is needlessly long where there is a repeat pattern to the commands.
>
> I have variables Vh01-Vh25 which give the number of hours worked by persons number 01-25 respectively.
> I want to find which person worked maximum hours and what that maximum was
> egen maxhr = rowmax(Vh01-Vh25) gives me the maximum number of hours
>
> Is there a quick way to find the person number with the max no. hours by taking advantage of those last two digits of Vh01-Vh25?
> I can do it with many lines of syntax but am sure there must be a neater way using some form of loop.
> Each record in the dataset concerns one interviewee and persons 01-25 are people who work for the interviewee
>
> A further complication is that more than one person may work that maximum number of hours.
>
> Also is there an equivalent to rowmax that gives the second to largest value in the series?
>
> Grateful for any tips. I am not a programmer
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