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Re: st: gen & summation again


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: gen & summation again
Date   Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:28:08 +0000 (GMT)

--- Ziad El-Khatib <[email protected]> wrote:
> new query for the summation
> 
> Drug1             Drug2
> --------              -------
> 1                         .
> 3                        .
> .                          1
> 2                          .
> .                           5
> 
> 
> 
> I want to have new variable "drugs" containing the values of drug1
> and drug2 together, but when i make summation, it is generating
> missing values because drug1 and drug2 can not have numerical values
> at the same time, of one obs had data, the other will be empty for
> sure.

egen drug = rowtotal(Drug1 Drug2)

Hope this helps,
Maarten


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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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