Foreach Stata 13

[Patrick Turcotte]

Thanks to all for your help is very useful...

I have to create 5 variables x1 to x5 so I use

foreach x of newlist x1-x5{
gen `x' = 2*x
}

but I need to have a specific result

x1 = 2*x
x2 = 4*x
x3 = 6*x
x4 = 8*x
x5 = 10*x

x = rnormal()

I have difficulty how to put all that in one boucle...

Thanks for your help

Patrick

[Mike Lacy]

This could be done with -foreach-, but it's easier with -forvalues-

forvalues i = 1/5 {
  generate x`i' = 2 * `i' * x
}

It's not clear to me if you want each use of x to be rnormal(), computed anew at each iteration, or for there to be one value of x = rnormal(), established before the loop. I'll leave that to you.

[Patrick Turcotte]

Thank Mr. Lacy, this work perfectly