I can think of dumb ways to do this. Put
the numlist in a variable, calculate
the differences and look at the summary
statistics using -summarize-.
Alternatively do it directly. This
code (1) assumes an ordered numlist,
minimum first (2) is not tested much.
tokenize "`numlist'"
local nn : word count `numlist'
local max = 0
local min = .
forval i = 2/`nn' {
local j = `i' - 1
local diff = ``i'' - ``j''
local min = min(`diff',`min')
local max = max(`diff',`max')
}
di "`min' `max'"
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Enzo Coviello
> Sent: 18 November 2004 06:04
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: intervals of equal width
>
>
> Dear List friends,
>
> just a brief question:
>
> Do you know a clever way to identify whether the intervals
> (allowing some
> approximation) in a numlist are of different width ?
>
> Many thanks for your solutions.
>
> Enzo
>
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