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RE: st: Defining upper limit of loop
From
"Sarah Edgington" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Defining upper limit of loop
Date
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:18:08 -0800
Nabin,
Ok, the same principle applies as before. You just need to modify things a
bit.
You don't want to keep adding X+X[_n+`i']. You want to add the next indexed
X value to the existing sum.
Try something like this:
gen sum=X
sum Z
forv i=1/`r(max)' {
replace sum=sum+X[_n+1] if Z>=`i'
}
-Sarah
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nabin Kafle
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Defining upper limit of loop
Sarah,
I want the following result to happen.
gen sum=X+X[_n+1] if Z==1
replace sum=X+X[_n+1]+X[_n+2] if Z==2
replace sum=X+X[_n+1] +X[_n+2] + X[_n+3] if Z==3 replace sum=X+X[_n+1]
+X[_n+2] + X[_n+3]+X[_n+4] if Z==4
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Sarah Edgington <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nabin,
> It looks like you want Stata to do a different thing depending on the
> value of Z for a given observation. For a given observation, however,
> you don't appear to want to do multiple things.
>
> For your simple example you could do this without a loop gen
> sum=X+X[_n+1] if Z==1 replace sum=X+X[_n+2] if Z==2 replace
> sum=X+X[_n+3] if Z==3 replace sum=X+X[_n+4] if Z==4
>
> Of course a loop for something that repeats like this helps prevent
> typos and is going to be helpful if you have a lot of values of Z to deal
with.
>
> To make it a loop you could do something like:
> gen sum=0
> sum Z
> forv i=1/`r(max)' {
> replace sum =X+X[_n+`i'] if Z==`i'
> }
>
> I suspect your actual task is probably more complicated than your
> example, in which case this may or may not get you where you're going.
>
> In general, though, when working with loops I often find it's
> illuminating for me to write out exactly what I want to happen for the
> first couple iterations of the loop. If I can get the results I want
> for those first few iterations, that often helps make it very clear
> what the final loop needs to look like.
>
> -S
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas,
> Anthony
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 2:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Defining upper limit of loop
>
> Yes, a forval loop will work for that. Nick's explanation describes
> how very well. I had thought you wanted to actually reference a variable's
name (i.e.
> a string). Just be aware that the macro `Z'
> needs to evaluate to numeric not string. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Nabin Kafle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want to loop a cycle number of times indicated by a number in a
>> variable
> name.
>> For example:
>> X Y Z
>> 1 2 1
>> 2 3 4
>> 3 2 2
>> 3 2 2
>> 4 2 2
>> . . . .
>>
>> gen sum=X
>> forvalues i=1/"Z" {
>> replace sum=X+X[_n+`i']
>> }
>>
>> What would be other way to do such if it is not possible by
>> -forvalues-
> command.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Thomas, Anthony
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Stata probably will not let you do that. Variable names cannot be a
>>> number, and "forval" type loops expect a numeric range (i.e.
>>> "variable name" would have to be a number). If you want to use
>>> variables in a loop, consider using:
>>>
>>> foreach i of varlist "varlist"{
>>>
>>> commands
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Nabin Kafle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Is there a way that I can use the forvalues command in stata in a
>>>> way that I upper value of the loop can be defined from the varibale
> list.
>>>>
>>>> forvalues i = 1/"var name" {
>>>> code for loop
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nabin Kafle
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