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st: RE: creating a macro from tabulate


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: creating a macro from tabulate
Date   Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:58:27 +0100

My answer is that you could create 
a macro, with a little programming, but that 
it isn't the way you should want to go. 

As you want a variable, go straight to 
-cumul-. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Gijs Dekkers
 
> I guess this again is a simple question, but I cannot find 
> the answer, 
> so here we go. Suppose I do a tabulate of a variable vname
> 
> .tabulate vname
> 
> and the result is
> 
> vname   Freq.    Percent    Cum.
>            
> -8    2,922    6.49    6.49
> 1    12,586    27.96    34.45
> 2    13,628    30.28    64.73
> 3    15,877    35.27    100.00
> Total    62,449    100.00
> 
> Now I want to create a variable Y which has the same 
> frequency structure 
> as "vname". The below piece of code works fine...
> 
> generate x=uniform()*100
> .generate y=-8 if x<6.49
> .replace y=1 if (x>6.49 & x<34.45)
> .replace y=2 if (x>34.45 & x<64.73)
> .replace y=3 if (x>64.73 & x<100)
> 
> ...though I am convinced that it could be done more efficient than I 
> have done it. But that's not the point: my problem is that I have 
> inputted the cumulative frequencies of the TABULATE (i.e., 
> 6.49, 34.45, 
> 64.73) directly into the above commands. This is no good, for 
> any change 
> of the cumulative frequencies would require changing of the 
> whole code 
> by hand.
> 
> So, how does one bring the cumulative frequencies of a TABULATE in a 
> local macro, analogous to r(mean) or r(p50) in SUMMARY?
> 

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