--- "Vladimir V. Dashkeyev" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to create new variables by taking logarithms of old variables
> and I want to keep old names:
>
> -- gen log_var1 = log(var1) --
>
> If I need to take logs of all the variables in the dataset or at
> least of the variables that are named consequently (e.g. var1,
> var2...var15), is there a way to generate new variables by a single
> command?
forvalues i = 1/15 {
gen log_var`i' = log(var`i')
}
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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