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Re: st: Replace value for some observation with average values of some other observations?
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Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Replace value for some observation with average values of some other observations?
Date
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:27:02 -0600
sum outcome if id == 2 | id ==3replace outcome = r(mean) if id == 1
Scott
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Stata Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> Suppose I have a dataset with variables id and outcome.
> Now for the observation with id=1 I want to replace the value of the
> outcome by the average outcome values of the observations with id=2
> and id=3.
>
> I thought of
>
> replace outcome=mean(outcome[id==2],outcome[id==3]), but this does not
> quite work.
>
> Would anyone know how to do this correctly?
>
> Thank you so much,
> C
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