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Speaking Stata: How to face lists with fortitude

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  • Nicholas J. Cox

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Three commands in official Stata, foreach, forvalues, and for, provide structures for cycling through lists of values (variable names, numbers, arbitrary text) and repeating commands using members of those lists in turn. All these commands may be used interactively, and none is restricted to use in Stata programs.They are explained and compared in some detail with a variety of examples.In addition,a self-contained exposition is given on local macros, understanding of which is needed for use of foreach and forvalues. Copyright 2002 by Stata Corporation.

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  • Nicholas J. Cox, 2002. "Speaking Stata: How to face lists with fortitude," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 2(2), pages 202-222, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:2:y:2002:i:2:p:202-222
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    1. Nicholas J. Cox, 2001. "Speaking Stata: How to repeat yourself without going mad," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 1(1), pages 86-97, November.
    2. Roger Newson, 2002. "Parameters behind "nonparametric" statistics: Kendall's tau,Somers' D and median differences," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 2(1), pages 45-64, February.
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    1. Nicholas J. Cox, 2009. "Speaking Stata: Rowwise," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 9(1), pages 137-157, March.
    2. Nicholas J. Cox, 2008. "Stata tip 59: Plotting on any transformed scale," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 8(1), pages 142-145, February.
    3. Nicholas J. Cox, 2007. "Speaking Stata: Identifying spells," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 7(2), pages 249-265, June.
    4. Nicholas J. Cox, 2012. "Speaking Stata: Output to order," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 12(1), pages 147-158, March.

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