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From | Chris Yang <bhpchg@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | st: Exclude non-positive values when using collapse |
Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:25:38 -0500 |
Dear All, I want to collapse a dataset using the means of the variables. However, in my data, some variables may contain value -1, and I want to exclude only such values from the mean calculation for the variable when collapsing. For example, given the following dataset: var1 var2 var3 group 0 1 1 1 0 -1 1 1 1 0 -1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 After the collapse (by group), for group 1: I want var2 to be (1 + 0 + 1) / 3 and var3 to be (1 + 1 + 1) / 3, i.e. ignoring -1 values when averaging. How should I do that? Thanks a lot! Best regards, Chris * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/