Xiangping wrote:

There are hundreds of variables from var4 to v389. Now I have to -gen-
total=var4*var8+var15*var19+var26*var30...............
The step of one multiplied pair is 4. The step between the first
variable of one pair and the variable in front of it is 7. Can someone
give me a hint? Or which command or commands can be used here.
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Use -foreach-; see [P] foreach. I had to start by creating an
artificial dataset; you have your own data, of course.

// create artificial data with 389 variables
clear
set obs 10
forvalues I = 1/389 {
gen var`I' = round(10*uniform())
}

// calculate -total-
generate total=0
forvalues I = 4(11)386 {
local J = `I'+4
replace total = total + var`I'*var`J'
}

Is that what you need?

Svend



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