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> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Marino, Jennifer
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: numlist abbreviations interpreted differently in egenmore's
> eqany S8?
>
> I'm working in Stata 8.
>
> Four ways of generating a numlist of whole positive integers are
> supposed to be identical, but I'm finding they generate different
> results with the same dataset in Stata 8.2.
>
> egen nurshealthtech=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103/106 134
> 206/208 235 446 447)
> egen nurshealthtech2=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103:106
> 134 206:208 235 446 447)
> egen nurshealthtech3=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103 to 106
> 134 206 to 208 235 446 447)
> egen nurshealthtech4=eqany(jobnum*),v(088 089 095 097 098 099 103(1)106
> 134 206(1)208 235 446 447)
>
> . count if nurshealthtech==1
> 173
>
> . count if nurshealthtech2==1
> 156
>
> . count if nurshealthtech3==1
> 156
>
> . count if nurshealthtech4==1
> 173
>
> Aren't these supposed to be the same?
>
No. For the ":" and "to" syntax, the preceding number specify the interval
used in constructing the number list.
For example:
10 15 to 25 == 10, 15, 20, 25
which is different than
10 15/25 == 10 15, 16, 17,..
-help numlist- has many more examples.
Scott
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