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Re: Subject: st: New variable based on a sum of products of another variable


From   "Clyde Schechter" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: Subject: st: New variable based on a sum of products of another variable
Date   Wed, 18 May 2011 07:21:57 -0700

While you can probably do this by brute force, with some logarithmic help
for calculating products, if I understand what you want to do, it is
simpler and quicker to exploit the iterative relationship between
successive observations:

gen newvar = var2 in 1
replace newvar = var2*(newvar[_n-1] + 1)

Hope this helps.

Clyde Schechter
Associate Professor of Family & Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

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