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st: RE: counting values across variables


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: counting values across variables
Date   Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:57:03 +0100

I am not familiar with SPSS, which 
I understand to be a statistical package, 
but this sounds like 

gen count = 0 
qui foreach v of var a1-a21 { 
	replace count = count + (`v' == 5) 
} 

There is an -egen- function -rcount()- 
in -egenmore- on SSC, for which the syntax
would be 

egen count = rcount(a1-a21), cond(@ == 5) 

but the approach from first principles 
gets higher marks from -egen--haters. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Jason Thompson
 
> Is there a Stata equivalent of the SPSS count function, which 
> counts the 
> number of occurrences of a particular value amongst a set of 
> variables? 
> Something like this:
> 
> count (newvar)=a1 to a21 (5), which assigns newvar the number 
> of times 
> a1-a21 equals 5 for each case?
> 
> Nothing in egen seems to be quite what I'm looking for.

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