Dear Steven Samuels,
Thank you very much for your useful advice.
Bests,
somsupa
--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Steven Samuels <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: standard deviation
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 2:31 PM
> somsupa
>
> bysort indcode period: keep if _n==1
>
> Then drop the individual variables like iccl. By the way,
> the log
> of the SD will probably be a much better response variable
> than the
> SD itself.
>
> Steve
>
> On Oct 25, 2008, at 4:29 AM, somsupa Nopprach wrote:
>
> > Dear Maarten buis,
> > Thank you very much. I will try it.
> > By the way, if i want to use the sd variable as a new
> time series
> > variable . how i can do it? should i use the reshape
> command
> > because now sd is duplicate ?
> >
> > somsupa
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Maarten buis
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: st: standard deviation
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:48 AM
> >> --- somsupa Nopprach <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> I would like to compute standard deviation of
> ICC1
> >> variable at each
> >>> period by industry. I will use the standard
> deviation
> >> as my new time
> >>> series variable for each industry.
> >>
> >> bys indcode period: egen sd = sd(icc1)
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> Maarten
> >>
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