Try:
egen x = mean(Y)
In general, -help egen- will show you a ton of uses for the -egen command.
Hope this helps.
-Howie
Howie Lempel
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shuaizhang Feng
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: assign a mean/median a value to a new variable
Dear all:
Suppose I have a data set that only contains one variable Y. and I want to add a variable x that equals the mean (or median) of Y for all observations. How do I do that? Apparantly x=mean(Y) doesn't seem to work.
Thank you for your help.
SZ
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