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RE: st: Translating SPSS syntax into STATA
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Stephen LeRoux <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Translating SPSS syntax into STATA
Date
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:09:21 +0000
Thanks Maarten
Stephen le Roux
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maarten Buis
Sent: 10 August 2012 13:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Translating SPSS syntax into STATA
lhe_1 is a variable. So you need to look back in your syntax to where that variable was created in order to find out what it contains. My guess, but it can be nothing other than a guess, is that it contains some (group-specific) mean.
** in SPSS is ^ in Stata
-- Maarten
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Stephen LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need some help understanding the following SPSS syntax in order to translate it into STATA syntax.
>
> I am using STATA 12
>
> SPSS syntax:
>
> COMPUTE lhsq2 = (lhe - lhe_1)**2.
> EXECUTE.
>
> The variable lhe is the log of hourly pay. My data is one quarter of the UK Labour Force Survey.
>
> I don't know what the lhe_1 means.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated,
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen le Roux
> National Institute of Economic and Social Research
> 2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HE United Kingdom Tel
> no: +44 (0)207 654 1946
> Web: http://www.niesr.ac.uk/staff/staffdetail.php?StaffID=323
> Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/stephleroux
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