Re: st: Creating a variable with a value conditional on other variables

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This is an FAQ. See

FAQ     . . Creating variables recording prop. of the other members of a group
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        4/05    How do I create variables summarizing for each
                individual properties of the other members of a
                group?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/members.html.

But in any case, there is a direct approach that will seem obvious
when explained.

First, the mean of all the others is naturally just

(sum of all the others) / (count of all the others)

and "sum of all the others" is

sum of all - this value

so we can go

su myvar, meanonly

gen meanothers = (r(sum) - myvar) / (r(N) - 1)

This needs a fix for when -myvar- is missing, too. That is going to
be, I think,

gen meanothers = (r(sum) - cond(missing(myvar), 0, myvar)) / (r(N)  - 1)

but the FAQ goes through this and a variety of problems in the same territory.

Nick

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> wrote:
> -jackknife- it:
>
> *********************
> sysuse auto, clear
> jackknife r(mean), keep: su mpg
> su mpg
> li _jk_1 in 1/10
> *********************
>
> The variable you need is stored as "_jk_1".
>
> T
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Nick K <nick.stata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to Stata and am having a hard time figuring out a relatively
>> simple problem. I'm experienced with other programming languages and
>> SQL so pseudo code may get my point across more clearly.
>>
>> foreach(observation)
>> {
>>    variable Xi = average(Y) if A != Ai
>> }
>>
>> Basically it would go over every observation and create a variable of
>> the average of some other variable NOT INCLUDING the variable's value
>> for the current row. So X is the average of Y for all observations
>> EXCEPT the current one.
>>
>> Thanks

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