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Re: st: adding observation of means of variables


From   Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: adding observation of means of variables
Date   Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:52:44 +0100

Thanks very much indeed, Phil.
Best regards
Abhimanyu

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Phil Clayton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Not as far as I know, but it's easy to program. Here's one solution:
>
> preserve
> collapse (mean) *
> tempfile means
> save `means'
> restore
> append using `means'
>
> The above assumes that all variables are numeric. If they're not, you could replace:
> collapse (mean) *
> with:
> ds, has(type numeric)
> collapse (mean) `r(varlist)'
>
> Phil
>
> On 16/02/2012, at 10:33 PM, Abhimanyu Arora wrote:
>
>> Dear statalist
>> Is there a direct command that appends an observation to the dataset,
>> giving the means of all the numeric variables?
>> Perhaps I am using -findit- not that efficiently, but if I am not
>> mistaken there was one...
>> Cheers
>> Abhimanyu
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