st: RE: How to generate a variable made up of sections of other variables‏

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

Just focusing on the second sentence, that is 

replace y = x[_n-40] in 60/70 

I don't see that a loop is needed for that. The point is that subscripting can be based on expressions. 

There is no way that -in- conditions can appear before the = exp in a -replace- statement. 

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

Matthew Mroczek

I am using Stata/SE 11.2 for Windows (64-bit x86-64) Born 30 Mar 2011 and have been trying to create a variable made up of specific sections of a number of other variables. So essentially I would like to replace eg the 60-70th values in my variable with the 20-30th values of another. Also if it complicated matters id like to work in a loop so something along the lines of this

forvalues c  = 1(1)5{
forvalues n = 1(1)5{
forvalues x = 1(1)5 {

sum variable
gen `c'`n'`x' = r(sum)
}

quietly gen p`c'`n' =  p`c'`n'1 in 1
quietly replace p`c'`n' =  p`c'`n'2 in 2
quietly replace p`c'`n' =  p`c'`n'3 in 3
quietly replace p`c'`n' =  p`c'`n'4 in 4
quietly replace p`c'`n' =  p`c'`n'5 in 5

}

quietly gen p`c' =  pds`c'1 in 1/5
quietly replace p`c' in 6/10 =  p`c'2 in 1/5
quietly replace p`c' in 11/15 =  p`c'3 in 1/5
quietly replace p`c' in 16/20 =  p`c'4 in 1/5
quietly replace p`c' in 21/25 =  p`c'5 in 1/5

}

So if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.

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