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Re: st: Time-Demeaning one's Data
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Duha Altindag <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Time-Demeaning one's Data
Date
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:52:27 -0500
Do you mean subtracting the mean of each individual over time from
each observation of that individual?
If id is individual identifier, then
foreach v of varlist [YOUR VARIABLES HERE] {
bysort id: egen mean_`v'=mean(`v')
g demeaned_`v'=`v'-mean_`v'
drop mean_`v'
}
should do it.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Sinan Hastorun <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Dear Statalist users,
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> I need to time-demean my data before I can run my analysis. Is there a quick way to do this? Thank you very much for your input.
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