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Re: st: How to calculate weighted mean
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to calculate weighted mean
Date
Thu, 5 Dec 2013 18:12:15 +0000
That is a user-written program from SSC. You need to install it using
. ssc inst _gwtmean
Nick
[email protected]
On 5 December 2013 18:07, Xixi Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to calculate weighted average return by country and by
> period. Here is my code:
> egen capweight_return = wtmean(Return_lead1), weight(Market_Cap),
> by(Country, Period)
>
> But the stata says "unknown egen function wtmean()", does anyone knows
> how to fix that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best,
> Xixi Lin
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