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st: re: cumulative sum in new variable
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Christopher Baum <[email protected]>
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st: re: cumulative sum in new variable
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Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:06:05 -0400
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Rich said
1. use the -egen- command with the the total function
2. see -help format-
This is a bum steer, I'm afraid. The total function in egen does not produce a cumulative sum. The generate function sum() does that for a living. That's why StataCorp renamed egen sum() to egen total(), to reduce confusion between the two. In any case what you want is sum().
KIt
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