Dear Ashim,
you may want to do one or another, and with some experience you will
feel what is right. Most or all of your questions are answered in
pretty much any Stata introduction guide. There is plenty of them in
the internet, e.g.
http://www.nyu.edu/its/statistics/Docs/Intro_stata5.pdf by Robert A.
Yaffee
or
http://www.folkesundhed.au.dk/uddannelse/software/besked.pdf by Svend Juul,
and many others written specifically for beginners.
The link to the UCLA website for Stata is attached to every message
sent to Statalist.
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
If you want something more interactive, you may benefit from the Net
Courses conducted by Stata, Corp. The schedule and details are
available on their website:
http://www.stata.com/netcourse/
Regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a question. Suppose I have a variable say - > age. Now I can do
> egen j=max(age). Then I will have the max value of age in ONE
> VARIABLE! Horrible waste of memory. I try to do local lj=max(age) and
> that does not work. How can I conserve memory ? Is there something
> basic which I have missed ?
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
>
> PS : I do understand that I can do egen j = max (age ) and then say
> local lj=j[1] and then -do drop j - but is there a better way ?
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