st: RE: RE: r(111) with egen count function

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

... or a single string. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 


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Sent: 12 July 2010 15:42
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Subject: st: RE: r(111) with egen count function

This isn't an -update- problem. 

The argument saa1 saa2 saa3 is not an expression, so your syntax is
illegal now and was illegal before the -update-. 

An expression is here whatever evaluates to a single number for each
observation. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Elizabeth Allred

I just updated my ado files and am now having a problem with the -egen-
function, -count-. Fortunately, -rownonmiss- works.

Stata 11.1 completely up-to-date on Windows.

. egen count1=count(saa1 saa2 saa3)
saa1saa2saa3 not found
r(111);

. egen count2=rownonmiss(saa1 saa2 saa3)

. tab count2

     count2 |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
          1 |         58        6.18        6.18
          2 |        187       19.91       26.09
          3 |        694       73.91      100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
      Total |        939      100.00


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