st: Taking products in loops

["Sandy Y. Zhu" <sandy.zhu@yale.edu>]

Hi everyone:

I was just wondering if you would know how to take products in Stata.

Here's how my data looks like:

Event            Return
1                    1.1
1                    1.01
1                    0.99
1                    1.23
1                    1.1
1                    1.34
1                    0.88
2                    0.99
2                    0.87
2                    1.1
2                    1.004
3                    1.02
3                    1.09
3                    0.98
3                    0.98
3                    1.09
3                    1.09
.....                    ............

For each event, I would like to multiply all the numbers under the
column "return" for that event together. At the end of the program, I
would like to output a column with all the "cumulative returns" for
each event. Since each of my events containa  different number of
observations (or returns), I'm wondering if there's a command that can
do that in Stata?

Thank you so much!



-- 
Yours sincerely,

Sandy Y. Zhu
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