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Re: st: smart averaging
From
Francisco Morales <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: smart averaging
Date
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:21:57 -0300
Hi Murat,
If you don't care about the missing values, this may be what you need:
. bysort ID (year): egen average_inc = mean(income)
With this line, the average is of those non-missing values.
Francisco
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 21:54, Murat Mercan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem I have been unable to decipher. I have the
> following data set:
> id year income
> 1 2006 100
> 1 2007 50
> 1 2008 .
> 1 2009 .
> 2 2006 50
> 2 2007 50
> 2 2008 50
> 2 2009 50
> I want to average the income variable for those four years. I tried to use
> the following command:
>
> bys id: egen average_inc = mean(income) if inrange( year,2006,2009)
>
> However, that averages person 1's income, too. I need to average just
> person 2's income.
> Can anyone suggest how to do that? Thank you in advance.
> Murat
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