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Re: st: median without current observation
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: median without current observation
Date
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:17:55 +0100
Federico and I made different guesses about the data structure and
what is needed.
In Federico's case, the code can be simplified, I think
levelsof region, local(reglist)
gen me_y = .
foreach r of local reglist {
su y if region != `r', detail
replace me_y = r(p50) if region==`r'
}
Nick
[email protected]
On 15 April 2013 09:22, Federico Belotti <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following code creates R mediany variables (R is the number of regions), where each variable takes the median of the distribution of "y" excluding the value of region `r'.
>
> levelsof region, local(reglist)
> foreach r of local reglist {
>
> egen me_y`r' = median(y) if region!=`r'
> tempvar tmp
> egen "`tmp'" = max(me_y `r')
> replace me_y `r' = `tmp' if region==`r'
>
> }
>
> hope this helps.
> Federico
>
> On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Andres Silva wrote:
>
>> Dear statausers,
>>
>> I want to create a variable "mediany", which needs to be regional
>> median (without considering the current value of "y"). I mean I need
>> to calculate the median with the remaining values of "y" in each
>> specific region.
>>
>> by region: egen mediany=median(y)
>> How can I tell stata not use the current "y" value?
>>
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