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RE: st: replacing with mean
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: replacing with mean
Date
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:42:01 +0000
No; it is not necessary as you could calculate the means in Mata. But Michael's suggestion will typically be easier to work with.
-compress- usually gives extra memory painlessly.
Nick
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Fabio Zona
...one more thing.... is it necessary to generate a new variable of the mean? This consumes memory in stata..
Michael N. Mitchell
Will this do the trick?
egen missrev = mean(revenues), by(industry)
replace revenues = missrev if missing(revenues)
On 2010-12-01 10.31 PM, Fabio Zona wrote:
> I have a set of industries, with a different number of firms in each industry; per each firm I have a value, say it be Revenues
>
> Industry Firm Revenues
> A 1 100
> A 2 150
> A 3 missing1
> A 4 120
> B 5 80
> B 6 130
> B 7 missing2
> ..
>
> I need to replace the missing value of Revenues with the mean of the Revenues within the same industries (For example, missing1 for firm 3, needs to be replaced with the mean of the values 100, 150, 120, that is, with the mean of the revenues of other firms 1, 2 and 4 which belong to the same industry to which firm 3 belongs).
> I need to do this hundreds of time.
> How can I do it easily?
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