I don't believe that obtaining a geometric mean through a single egen statement is possible. There is an <ameans> command that provides the geometric mean, among other statistics. Perhaps that helps?
Eric
>dear all,
>is there a way to obtain geometric means when using the following command:
>
> egen mean_x=mean(x), by(time)
>
>thank you
>Mariarosaria
>
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