AW: st: how to save summarize data

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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There is no need to speculate on the number of levels in a variable you want
to loop over, you can simply -levelsof- the thing (see NJC`s
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html):


*************
sysuse auto, clear
gen myloopmean=.
qui levelsof rep78
foreach lev in `r(levels)'{
su mpg if rep78 ==`lev', mean
replace myloopmean=r(mean) if rep78 ==`lev'
}
bys rep78: egen myegenmean=mean(mpg)
l rep78 myloopmean myegenmean, sepby(rep78) h(20)
*************

Note that the -egen- approach advocated in my earlier posting deals
elegantly and automatically with missings, while the loop solution does
not...


HTH
Martin


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Gesendet: Samstag, 19. Juni 2010 18:01
An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Betreff: Re: st: how to save summarize data

I am not sure that the following is the best solution, but it works.
Let's suppose that the variable "companies" is a numeric one (i.e.
from 1 to 10).

gen EFNmean=.
forevalues c= 1/10 {
              summarize EFN if companies==`c'
              replace EFNmean=r(mean) if companies==`c'
}


sabry



On 19 June 2010 17:21, Thomas Gericks <ThomasGericks@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working with panel data. I am analyzing several companies over a time
period.
>
> I generated a variable indicating the capital structure (EFN) of the
company for every year.
> Now I want to have the mean per company over the time period.
>
> I know how to get it but i want to save the mean as a new variable.
>
> A way to read it is:
>
> bys company, summarize EFN
>
> how can i now save it as a variable for every company?
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> Thomas Gericks
>
>
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