Thank you. I appreciate the clarification.
-Jeff
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, no. As documented in the help for -egenmore- --
> which as pointed out by Carole Wilson, David Radwin,
> and Kit Baum himself is a user-written package --
> -egen, record()- computes a series of records
> (the maxima, or if desired, the minima) experienced
> so far. Usually, but invariably, the context is one
> or more time series and so we see a series of records
> over time.
>
> If you want just the minima and maxima, go there
> directly with -egen-'s -min()- and -max()-, which
> are part of official Stata. Alternatively, use -summarize-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Jeff Simonson
>
> > Thank you. That did the trick. It doesn't pull the max value of the
> > observations as I had thought it would do, but at least it
> > now recognizes
> > the function.
>
> David Radwin
>
> > > Do you have -egenmore- (maintained by Nick Cox) installed?
> > >
> > > If not, or if you are not sure, try:
> > >
> > > ssc install egenmore
>
> Jeff Simonson
>
> > > >
> > > >. egen highgpa = record(gpa), by(sid)
> > > >unrecognized command: _grecord
> > > >r(199);
>
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