Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: -egen total()- function and indexing within the -if- condition |
| Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:14:01 +0200 |
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:03 PM, A Loumiotis wrote: > I thought that the index number in the -if- condition is reseted to 1 > at the beginning of every -by- group when generating a variable using > the -egen total()- function. It seems that this is not the case > though <snip> This is documented in the helpfile of -egen-: "Explicit subscripting (using _N and _n), which is commonly used with generate, should not be used with -egen-" Hope this helps, Maarten --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/