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Re: st: Tracking Replacements Made to Variables
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Christopher Lanoue <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Tracking Replacements Made to Variables
Date
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:52:30 -0500
Thank you very much.
Yes, only filling gaps of length one is deliberate in this case. I have
further conditions for gaps of larger length, but with this help that should
not be a problem.
Chris
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Christopher Lanoue <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you very much.
> Yes, only filling gaps of length one is deliberate in this case. I have further conditions for gaps of larger length, but with this help that should not be a problem.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On a different tack: note that what you did is just linear
>> interpolation. See -help ipolate-.
>> What you did presupposes that times are regularly spaced (probably not
>> an issue in your case) and it will only work to fill in gaps of length
>> 1 (perhaps deliberately). -ipolate- will handle both issues. It still
>> leaves open the question of whether linear interpolation is the best
>> way to interpolate. Other interpolation commands include -cipolate-
>> and -csipolate- (SSC).
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Christopher Lanoue <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > My problem is that I am trying to keep track of changes that I make to
>> > my data [....] For instance if I have data such as:
>> >
>> > yr var1
>> > 1961 15
>> > 1962 .
>> > 1963 20
>> > 1964 .
>> > 1965 30
>> >
>> > and I want to take the average of the two data points to fill in the
>> > missing values.
>> >
>> > I run replace var1 = (var1[_n-1]+var1[_n+1])/2 if var1 == . to
>> > accomplish this task
>>
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