Re: st: how to generate mean for a secquence of five year of a variable

[prakash singh <prakashbhu@gmail.com>]

Thank Nick and Oliver for generating discussion which helped me coming
across the command lowess thanks a lot but what I mean (let me try
again to put my query in a better way) is: mean of only firs five
observation and then mean of last five obesrvation for each country.
the excercise is purely related to understanding the behaviour of the
variable at both ends not an ecoonmetric excercise.

I render my sincere apology if due to capacity constraint I am not
able to explain the query in a appropriate way.

Prakash


On 5/5/11, prakash singh <prakashbhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank Nick and Oliver for generating discussion which helped me coming
> across the command lowess thanks a lot but what I mean (let me try
> again to put my query in a better way) is: mean of only firs five
> observation and then mean of last five obesrvation for each country.
> the excercise is purely related to understanding the behaviour of the
> variable at both ends not an ecoonmetric excercise.
>
> For convenience I am attaching the excel file where I have worked it.
> I thought whether it is possible to do it in stata with some command
> or not.
>
> I render my sincere apology if due to capacity constraint I am not
> able to explain the query in a appropriate way.
>
> Prakash
>
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