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Re: st: single elements of varlist


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: single elements of varlist
Date   Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:03:50 +0100

program myprog, rclass
          syntax varlist(numeric min=3) [if] [in]


          tokenize
> get the mean of variable 1
> get the median of variable 2
> get the standard deviation of variable 3
> return scalar results=(sum of the previous three values)


On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:53 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am new to programming and I have a basic problem. I need to refer to the
> single variables in "varlist" and I am not sure how. For example, I might to
> get the sum of: the mean of the first variable, the median of the second
> variable and the standard deviation of the third variable.
>
> Thanks a lot for any feedback,
>
> Andrea
>
>
>
> program define myprog, rclass
> syntax varlist
> get the mean of variable 1
> get the median of variable 2
> get the standard deviation of variable 3
> return scalar results=(sum of the previous three values)
>
>
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