Dear all,
The program Svend gave before is total right. I made quotas mistake
when I coded the loop.
In order to show my graditude and respect to Svend and Michael
Blasnik, I made a tiny change on the pragram and it is equivalent to
Svend's.
gen total=0
forvalues i=4 15: 386
local j=`i'+4
replace expens3=expens+var`i'*var`j'
}
Thanks a lot..
On 10/9/05, Svend Juul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joe,
>
> You wrote:
>
> //calculated total
> forvalues i=4(11)386{
> local j='i'+4
> replace total=total+var'i'*var'j'
> }
> Then Stata 8.2 informs me
> 'i' invalid name
> r(198)
>
> Your problem is the single quotes. The left single quote is ` (grave).
> It may be on the upper left corner of your keyboard, or it may be
> elsewhere. It may also be a dead key, displaying nothing until you hit
> the spacebar.
>
> The Stata manuals are not very explicit on this, and you are not the
> first who had this difficulty.
>
> Svend
>
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