Re: st: RE: Nested loops?

[adiallo5@worldbank.org]

Thanks Nick and Edwin.
You're among the best.
Amadou.



                                                                                                                                           
                      "Nick Cox"                                                                                                           
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local varlist "v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8"
tokenize "`varlist'"
local nv : word count `varlist'

forval j = 1/`nv' {
             forval i = 2/`nv' {
                         if `i' > `j' gen ``i''_``j'' = ``i'' * ``j''
             }
}

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

adiallo5@worldbank.org

> I would like to generate the following variables:
>
> local myvars "v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8....etc..."
>
> for var v2 v3 v4....:                          g X_v1 =  X*v1
> for var v3 v4 v5 v6...:                     g X_v2 =  X*v2
> for var v4 v5 v6 v7...                      g X_v3 =  X*v3
> etc.
>
> How to do that, if I have a lot of variables involved?

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