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I'm new to Eviews and this user forum. I need help with the following to create a new time series object called B:

A is an existing time series object; B is a new calculated time series object

IF(A>(2089.71+70), B = A -70))

IF(A >(180+3.49), B=(A-3.49+0.035*180)/1.035))

IF(A<180, B=(A-3.49))

Look at @recode()

I did try recode but Eviews returned an error message about too many arguments.

You probably did something wrong.

That's really insightful - I thought I had probably done something wrong when Eviews returned an error. Is there any advice you can provide beyond "you probably did something wrong"?

Not without out knowing what you did.

Well I know what you did.
You gave @recode more than 3 arguments.

yes I gave @recode more than 3 arguments. How do I fix this if there are three categories (arguments)? Do I need to do each one at a time?

You will have to nest a couple of recodes inside each other.

thanks, I will give it a try.

Greetings:
I have a similar problem.
I have two series

First series : Personal_Income ( $ )
Second series : Age ( years old )

i would like to make a group with two new series :

Personal_Income_Of_Young :: Income of people below 25
Personal_income_Of_Old :: income of people above 50

If i could get these new series into a group , then i could call .testbtw and
get stats on the differences in these two age groups

there seems to be no way to "Freeze" a smpl command after i create one of
the new series.
Hope this is understandable ..

Many thanks for any hints or advice --!

What you're describing doesn't really fit in with the structure of EViews.


All series in a workfile page have the same structure - the same number of observations.

So you have two series: Which means you have 5 observations. Any new series you create will also have 5 observations. So in your case where you say you want to create a series that will contain income information for those under 25, what would the other 3 observations be?

thanks for the reply - I would NOT have 5 samples any more, I would have two unequal series

I found that I could create two (unequal length ) vectors and then do the
required stats on the vectors with my own code, but could not get
Groups to accept vectors as members so I could not call .testbtw on the group members .

I will try the "stats by classification " -
Oh well, thanks for the confirmation that my approach needs reconsideration

I think a specific solution to your overall problem would be to do the following:

• Create an indicator series that is equal to 1 for young people, 0 for middle aged and 2 for old people:

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  series indicator = @recode(age>50,2, @recode(age<25,1,0))
• set the sample to be if indicator>0 (i.e. only young or old people):

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  smpl if indicator>0
• Open up the income series and click on View->Descriptive Statistics->Equality Tests by Classification, and enter Indicator as the classifying series.