-egen-
example:
egen x = mean(y)
-BK
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Shuaizhang Feng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all:
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> 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.
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> Thank you for your help.
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> SZ
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