This won't work yet, as constructs like `Y+10'
won't work the way you want them to work.
There is, as far as I know, no undocumented syntax for looping
through two sets of values simultaneously.
You can go `=`Y'+10' to get an evaluation on
the fly.
You can also go `X--' to get decrementing
on the fly.
But in this case, the problem is not a full-blown
multiple loop problem: it can be reduced to
a single loop, as Jean showed. There is, however,
a trade-off between concision and clarity. In
this case I would be driven mostly by the
consideration that I might well want to come
back to this code and understand it immediately
and be able to modify it quickly. Clarity
would like win over concision in favour of
something like
local X = 43
forvalues Y = 120(10)530 {
local Y2 = `Y' + 10
predict prob`Y', pr0(`Y', `Y2')
predict exp`Y', e0(`Y', `Y2')
local where = `samp' - `X'
local X = `X' - 1
replace prob = prob`Y' in `where'
replace exp = exp`Y' in `where'
}
You can squeeze this to fewer lines with
local X = 43
forvalues Y = 120(10)530 {
predict prob`Y', pr0(`Y', `=`Y' + 10')
predict exp`Y', e0(`Y', `=`Y' + 10')
local where = `samp' - `X--'
replace prob = prob`Y' in `where'
replace exp = exp`Y' in `where'
}
and even fewer
local X = 43
forvalues Y = 120(10)530 {
predict prob`Y', pr0(`Y', `=`Y' + 10')
predict exp`Y', e0(`Y', `=`Y' + 10')
replace prob = prob`Y' in `=`samp' - `X''
replace exp = exp`Y' in `=`samp' - `X--''
}
but I think many Stata users would find this more
difficult to read.
There is a much more detailed discussion
of such parallel loops problems in Stata Journal
3(2):185-202 (2003).
Nick
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jean ries
> Here is a suggestion. Hope it helps.
>
> local X 43
>
> forvalues Y = 120(10)530 {
> predict prob`Y', pr0(`Y',`Y+10')
> predict exp`Y', e0(`Y',`Y+10')
> replace prob=prob`Y' in `samp-`X''
> replace exp=exp`Y' in `samp-`X''
> loc X = `X' - 1
> }
Amani Siyam
> I wish to make two "forvalues" loops work together rather
> than nested as
> shown by my suggested code below. Is there a way I can do
> that in STATA
>
>
> local samp=_N+43
> set obs `samp'
> foreach M of newlist prob exp {
> gen `M'=.
> }
> intreg ptiming timing if ~npointer1, noskip intreg
> forvalues Y = 120(10)530 ; X = 43(-1)1 {
> predict prob`Y', pr0(`Y',`Y+10')
> predict exp`Y', e0(`Y',`Y+10')
> replace prob=prob`Y' in `samp-`X''
> replace exp=exp`Y' in `samp-`X''
> }
> local samp=_N-43
> slist prob exp in `samp'/l
>
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