This is not going to work for reasons I gave
and for reasons I alluded to in an earlier
posting.
-while- does not buy you a loop over observations
unless you ask for that explicitly.
Also, Stata is going to interpret this as
while b[1] == . {
...
}
so, depending on b[1], the loop is either never
entered or infinite.
Nick
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> How about this:
>
>
> while b == . {
> replace b=b[_n+1]*c if b==. & year <1999
> replace b=b[_n-1]*c if b==. & year >1999
> }
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