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Re: st: How to generate an index for the calculation of geometric mean
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to generate an index for the calculation of geometric mean
Date
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:46:45 +0000
I didn't understand what you want when you asked this yesterday, and
the same applies to this repetition. Specifically, where does the 2.3
come from? Please show the formula which produces this result.
Nick
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to generate an index variable for the calculation of the
> geometrical mean of an unbalanced panel (namely, the exponent, which
> makes the product a
> geometrical mean).
>
> Here is an example of one panel:
>
> . list reduct_per y3 if appt==2862
>
> +---------------------+
> | reduct~r y3 |
> |---------------------|
> 30. | 1 1 |
> 31. | 1 1 |
> 32. | 1 1 |
> 33. | 1 1 |
> 34. | 1 1 |
> |---------------------|
> 35. | 1 1 |
> 36. | 1 1 |
> 37. | 1 1 |
> 38. | 1 1 |
> 39. | 1 1 |
> |---------------------|
> 40. | 1 1 |
> 41. | 1 1 |
> 42. | 1 1 |
> 43. | 1 1 |
> 44. | 1 1 |
> |---------------------|
> 45. | 1 1 |
> 46. | 1 1 |
> 47. | 1 1 |
> 48. | 1 1 |
> 49. | 1 1 |
> |---------------------|
> 50. | 1 1 |
> 51. | 1 1 |
> 52. | 1 1 |
> 53. | 1 1 |
> 54. | 1 1 |
> |---------------------|
> 55. | 25 25 |
> 56. | 25 625 |
> 57. | 25 15625 |
> 58. | 25 390625 |
> 59. | 25 9765625 |
> |---------------------|
> 60. | 25 2.44e+08 |
> 61. | 25 6.10e+09 |
> 62. | 25 1.53e+11 |
> 63. | 25 3.81e+12 |
> 64. | 25 9.54e+13 |
> |---------------------|
> 65. | 25 2.38e+15 |
> 66. | 25 5.96e+16 |
> +---------------------+
>
>
> The problem is that for reduct_per==1 I would like
> the index to become a constant and remain the same until the next
> reduct_per, which is different from zero, comes.
>
> Consider the example above: during the first 26 periods the index
> should be one and and starting from the 26th period it should change
> to 2,3 etc.
>
> If, on the other hand, we would have opposite descending trail (namely
> 25 percent reduction rate from 1-25 and zero starting from the 26th
> period), the index should be 1, 2,..,25 and then becomes a constant 25 from
> the 26th period.
>
> What is the simplest way to generate such an index? Can it be done
> without a loop?
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