something like:
sysuse auto, clear
tab rep78
gen cond = rep78==3
bys cond (price): gen max = _n==_N & cond==1
sum price if cond
sum price if max==1
HTH,
Maarten
--- "Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello - Does anyone know an efficient way to identify the observation
> at
> which a particular variable is minimum or maximum (subject to `if'
> and/or `in') ?
>
> Apparently -summarize- does not return this value. I see nothing in
> -egen- nor does "findit argmax" produce anything. I can program this
> myself by looping through the observations but that is not efficient.
> In
> particular one cannot gurantee that anything like
>
> summ x
> local xmax=r(max)
> if x = `xmax' {
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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