re: st: data management question

["Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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What about first replacing year 2004 for myvar with missing, then

bysort var1-var10 (year): gen mean_myvar = mean(myvar) if inlist(year,2001,2002,2003,2004)

that now includes the year 2004.

Now you can

replace myvar = mean_myvar if year == 2004

Of course I'm guessing at this without any data set to try it on...

Now you could replace

> I'm guessing a statement like,
> 
> bysort var1-var10 (year): gen mean = mean(var11) if inlist(year,2001,2002,2003)
> 
> should get the means for those years for each subset.
> 
> Now how to get the 2004 year replaced with the means for each subset?


>> We have data from 12 schools, grouped into two conditions, for 100 categories, for 9 grades, for each of 10 years. This data is for 20 different variables.
>> 
>> We want to replace the scores for year 2004, with the mean of the score for 2001-2003 for each variable, for each grade, for each category, for each condition, for each school. The current values for 2004 are not reliable and so we are making this replacement.
>> 
>> How can we do this. 
>> 
>> Here is an example of the data
>> 
>> sch_id group category grade year rex mex sex . . .
>> 1       2     all      3   2001  1   2   0 . . .
>> 1       2     all      3   2002  2   1   1 . . .
>> 1       2     all      3   2003  4   1   1 . . .
>> 2       2     all      3   2004  8   55  6 . . .
>> ...
>> 
>> 17       1    blkfem    8   2010  1   2   1 . . .
>> 
>> --Alan Acock

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