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Re: st: averaging variables for regression model
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: averaging variables for regression model
Date
Wed, 16 May 2012 15:52:23 +0200
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:41 PM, FredVer wrote:
> when in a paper says: Country level variables are
> averaged by country over the period under study. does the command then mean:
>
> sort country year
> by country year: egen new = mean(oldvar)
I would read that as:
bys country : egen new = mean(oldvar)
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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