--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> A further small refinement is make each -summarize-
> -summarize, meanonly-. -meanonly- is not
> a good name, as other things are calculated.
>
> The -meanonly- has two tiny but definite
> advantages for problems like these:
>
> 1. Faster calculation.
> 2. Suppression of output.
Thanks for pointing this out. My complete do-file (not the part that
I sent to the list) loops over a few dozen countries and -summarize,
meanonly- is indeed better than -summarize- alone, for the reasons
that you mentioned.
Friedrich Huebler
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