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st: Simple and weird error
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Zhangqunzi <[email protected]>
To
Stats <[email protected]>
Subject
st: Simple and weird error
Date
Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:54:41 +0100
Dear All,
I am trying to calculate the log return lr
according to the code below:
For each varname of varlist 'r(varlist)'{
Quiet replace 'varname' =log('varname')
Quiet gen lr'var'='varname'[_n]-'varname'[_n-1]
Quiet drop 'varname'
}
varname is price1,2,3 etc for each firm.
In the end I found all the log return I get is positive which is clearly wrong for 5000 firms and 30years.
Can anyone help me about this? Thanks
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