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Re: st: growth rates
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: growth rates
Date
Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:26:51 +0100
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bornmann, Lutz wrote:
> I would like to calculate growth rates. What is the best (and simplest) statistical procedure to do that?
Say your time variable is called timevar and the variable you want to
compute the growth for is called var, then you type:
tsset timevar
gen growth = D.var/L.var
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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