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AW: st: Addressing variables


From   "Christopher Garlich" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   AW: st: Addressing variables
Date   Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:08:35 +0200

Dear Robson,

Thanks for your reply.
I have tried that already and it just returns: "ambiguous abbreviation". I
also tried it with a macro, namely:
Local i i
And when I then try "avg = rowmean(Lag1 - Lag`i')", STATA actually
interprets it as lag"i", but not with value of variable i.
So my problem persists, I'm not able to address the value of i.  

Regards
chris

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Robson
Glasscock
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 13:43
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: Addressing variables

I think you need to reference Lag"i" using Lag`i'

With an extra space it looks like this:

` i '

That referencing has worked for me in conjunction with the -levelsof-
command.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Christopher Garlich
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a dataset with lag-variables, e.g. Lag1 - Lag5. I want to take the
> mean of Lag-variables 1-"i", where "i" is a number defined in another
> variable, e.g. a variable called "i".
> So I'm trying to do something like this:
> egen avg = rowmean(Lag1 - Lag"i")
>
> but I cannot get it to work. Does somebody know how to address variable
"i"
> correctly?
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Chris
>
>
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