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Re: st: displaying summation of a variable
Alan, thank you. The -return list- showed more than the -summarize var,
detail- which in this case actually contained the r(sum) giving what I
wanted.
regards,
bw
From: Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: displaying summation of a variable
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:24:53 -0500
One way is to use summarize and access the saved result.
For example
sysuse auto
sum price
display "Sum="r(sum)
return list will show you the saved results.
Best,
Alan
On 1/24/06, b. water <[email protected]> wrote:
> dear statalisters,
>
> Stata 8.2 Window XP Pro SP2,
>
> i have a variable 'total', which represents population (no. of persons)
per
> observation. what i wanted is quite simple - simply to sum(total) to
give
> the overall total no. of person in the dataset. so i did egen
> sumpopn=sum(total), which created a variable sumpopn filled with a
constant
> equalling the overall sum, then took a peek at it using display sumpopn.
it
> does the job... but is there a shorter way of doing this without -egen-
ing
> a new variable (i know i can always -drop sumpopn- later)?
>
> regards,
> bw
>
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