Thanks for confirming this. I tried it in Stata 9 as well, and had the
same problem.
Your _gmed6 program below seems to work fine -- at least it has no
problem with the simple test case with the -if- clause using a string
variable. In the production program I'm writing, I elected to create a
numeric tempvar and set it based on the -if- clause, then use the
tempvar with the egen command.
Weird bug.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin
Nichols
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 12:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: error with -egen median if-
Alex Ogan:
The bug is reproducible, it seems. Note that the median function for
-egen- is implemented as _gmedian.ado and is written in Stata 3 code,
which is the version I started in, but no longer remember... let's
rewrite it in Stata 6 code and see if that works. Save the following
as _gmed6.ado in your c:\ado folder or equivalent, and try your code
again using egen y=med6(x).
program define _gmed6
version 6, missing
syntax newvarname =/exp [if] [in] [, BY(varlist)]
tempvar touse x n
quietly {
gen byte `touse'=1 `if' `in'
gen double `x' = `exp'
sort `touse' `by' `x'
by `touse' `by': gen long `n'=sum(`x'<.)
by `touse' `by': g `varlist' = ( /*
*/ `x'[(`n'[_N]+1)/2] + /*
*/ `x'[(`n'[_N]+2)/2] ) / 2 if `touse'==1
}
end
On 5/22/06, Alex Ogan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is a more simple example. I also should have mentioned I am
using
> Stata/SE 8.2.
> . egen testsum_1 = sum(numvar)
> . egen testmedian_1 = sum(numvar)
> . egen testsum_2 = sum(numvar) if strvar=="a"
> (2 missing values generated)
> . egen testmedian_2 = median(numvar) if strvar=="a"
> a not found
> r(111);
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