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Re: st: command forvalues with multiple if expressions
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: command forvalues with multiple if expressions
Date
Tue, 3 May 2011 09:15:15 +0100 (BST)
--- Martijn Stouthart
> I have a problem getting the forvalues command working the way I want.
> I have the following problem. I have the following variables:
> cftassets3ysd, industrycode and year. Where industrycode has a range
> from 1-100 and year a range of 1999 to 2009.
>
> Now I want the following. I want for each industrycode in each year
> the mean of cftassets3ysd belonging to that industrycode in that year.
> Preferably I want all values be generated in one column. I also have
> to note that some observations of cftassets3ysd have missing values,
> so as a result I want those to be treated in the right way, thus as
> missing values.
>
> Unfortuneatly I cannot get the forvalues loop working.
This is not a -forvalues- problem. Just type:
bys industrycode year : egen industrysigma = mean(cftassets3ysd)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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