Renzo,
Thanks so much for that.
There are unlikely to be any ties because the value for consumption goes up to 4 decimal places.
Cheers,
Ramani
Renzo Comolli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Read the help for -egen- it will help
>
>
> How do you plan to handle ties (i.e. a case in which there is more than
> one
> household which is at the same minimal distance from the average
> consumption)?
> If you plan to pick one of them at random then
> . egen meanconsumption=mean(consumption)
> . generate absconsumptiondev=abs(meanconsumption-consumption)
> . sort absconsumptiondev
> . keep in 1
> -sort- already does the maximization for you among ties
>
> If you plan to keep all the ties
> . egen meanconsumption=mean(consumption)
> . generate absconsumptiondev=abs(meanconsumption-consumption)
> . egen mindevfromavgcons=min(absconsumptiondev)
> . keep if absconsumptiondev==mindevfromavgcons
>
> Ciao
> Renzo
>
>
>
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> ----
> *From Ramani Gunatilaka <[email protected]>
> To [email protected]
> Subject st: Nearest value
> Date Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:13:43 +0000
>
> Hi everybody,
> This is probably a very simple question, but I have not been able to
> figure
> out a solution.
> I have a data set with consumption and other variables such as number of
> adults, district, sector for each household.
> I need to write a programme that requires selecting the particular
> household
> whose consumption is nearest to the mean consumption of all the
> households.
> Can someone please tell me, what is the Stata command that will do this
> for
> me?
> Thanks,
> Ramani
>
>
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