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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: lags and leads |
Date | Sun, 1 May 2011 11:23:19 +0100 |
Look at the help for -tsset- and -varlist-. The operator F. gets the next value in a time series. Nick On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Bobasu Alina <ally_bib@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello! I am new to Stata and thus have several questions. First of all I would > like to ask you how can I specify the expected value of a variable for the next > period. I know how lags are specified but I cannot find information regarding > the value of the variable for the next period, something like variable(1)? > > Secondly I would like to ask you how can I import data by defining the variable > on a time set? If I have the value of income for annual data covering 1997-2009 > how can I import the data in order to regress afterwards the variable on its > lags? if I do not import the data in this way I obtain the following message: > time variable not set. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/