I don't understand how -povdeco- is involved here.
As far as your -egen- call is concerned, the programming
manual is not needed, but just the help for -egen-.
Your call
egen sume = sum(gear_ratio*displacement*length)/displ[1] , by(for)
is illegal. You can't put arbitrary expressions on the RHS of
an -egen- call. You can, in this case, put an expression
inside the call to -sum()-
sum(<here>)
but not outside
sum( )<illegal>
Remember the -sum()- here is an -egen- function, not the -sum()-
function.
Nick
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> Ousmane has recently raised a problem using povdeco.
> In fact, his program crashes when egen is invoked.
> In his code, all previous egen calculus went fine expect for a special
> sum to be computed.
> I was able to reproduce the problem using auto data.
> However, I am not a so good programmer, so I seek the community's
> help.
> Suppose we have the fancy sum to compute. Here is the result.
>
> . clear
> . sysuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
> . se tr on
> .
> .
> . egen sume = sum(gear_ratio*displacement*length)/displ[1] , by(for)
>
>
>
> I do not why the last syntax is not going through.
> And I do not have the programming
> manual to find a solution.
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