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Thank you. What about in more general instances? For example, if I wanted to pull out the largest of a list of values, e.g., something of the form: Series a=@...(b,c,..,z) that would assign a to be the highest of the values from b-z. I suppose you could do some sort of nested for loop with the @reco...

Hi, Is there a command to assign an observation the highest of two series? So for example, suppose: series a=1 series b=2 Is there then a command of the form series c=@...(a,b) which would return c=b, because b is greater than a? In other languages the command 'max' often seems to do this. However, ...

Oh ok, thanks. Is there a way to do that within a program?

Hi, I have a panel dataset that goes to Year t. In my code I create a Variable X that is calculated from lagged values, so that I have the necessary data to create values for Variable X up to Year t+1. However, because my initial dataset only goes to Year t, there is no cell where that could be plac...

Thanks (I've just realized that I was sampling only a subset of observations)

Is there something special that you have to do to generate lagged variables when using panel data?
When I try the very simple code

'series a=b(-1)' or

'genr a=b(-1)'

the series a ends up having a bunch of missing values, for reasons that I don't understand.

Thanks in advance,
Marc

Hi, I would like to conditionally assign names to observations under a name variable in a cross-section dataset. I have created a string vector to store the names. Then, I have tried to use a for loop to name the observations, according to the crossid values. However, EViews does not seem to recogni...

Nvm. Thanks, again.

FYI (for anyone else reading this), the code that works is

wfcreate(wf=annual) a 1981 2015 10
alpha region
smpl if crossid=1
region="region_name"

Thanks Gareth. Sorry if I'm missing something, but when I try that I get the error message "endif found outside of loop or IF statement".

Hi, I am trying to create a panel data set, and I want to assign names to the regions for which I have data. My code looks something like this: wfcreate(wf=annual) a 1981 2015 10 alpha region if crossid=1 then region=region_name endif However, this doesn't work to assign names to the region variable...