When you copy and paste, Maarten, does your Stata not complain about
"invalid syntax r(198)" in the line reading " local p = cond(`e1', .9, .1) *
///"?
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Maarten buis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: Calculating binomial probability distribution of
cumulative outcomes of independent events with differing values and
probabilites
--- Wally Knox <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm at a loss as to why my machine is objecting to the forvalues
command.
One thing that might have happened is that the e-mail software may have
added some returns in the code where none should have been added. The
code is correctly displayed here:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00389.html
hope this helps,
Maarten
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