Hi Nick,
> If I understand this correctly what you want is
>
> gen count = 0
> levels limit, local(levels)
> qui foreach l of local levels {
> count if x < `l'
> replace count = r(N) if limit == `l'
> }
Actually, this is not what I wanted since -limit- is
not an integer variable. However, you made me look
at the problem in a different way, and now I solved it!!
Thanks!!
Jelmer
> I think you're right to be puzzled; this seems
> a rather unusual problem. The only short-cut
> I can think of is looping over levels of -limit-,
> rather than over observations.
>
> No solution with -sum()- seems likely to get
> anywhere near an answer, as no -sort- order
> will segregate observations into relevant
> and irelevant.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Jelmer Yeb Ypma
>
> > I guess there is a easy solution for this, but after looking
> > at it for a couple of hours I and searching the internet for
> > the solution I still haven't found it. Now my mind is
> > completely lost somewhere, so I hope any of you can help me out.
> >
> > I have a variable -limit- with limits. e.g.
> > 2
> > 1
> > 0
> > 2
> > 2
> > 3
> > And there is variable for instance called -x- with other values e.g.
> > 0
> > 1
> > 2
> > 5
> > -3
> > 3
> > What I want is a new variable which has on index i the counts
> > of -x-'s smaller than the -limit- on that index. So for index
> > 1 I want to count the number of values which are smaller than
> > limit[1] = 2. In this case values 0,1 and -3 of -x- are
> > smaller, so I want to have 3 on index 1 in my new variable.
> > For index 2, only values 0 and -3 are smaller than
> > limit[2]=1, so I want a 2 there.
> > I tried summing over a variable with ones which didn't seem
> to work...
> > (for instance: gen nsmall = sum(ones) if x < limit[_n])
>
>
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