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RE: st: cumulative average moving through time


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: cumulative average moving through time
Date   Wed, 6 Oct 2004 21:43:45 +0100

The original example was a little special 
in that a variable -ob- already exists 
with exactly the desired properties. 

A detail worth pointing out briefly is 
that the solutions so far all 
assume that -calc- is never missing. 

More general code would be 

bysort pid (ob) : gen cave = sum(calc) / sum(calc < .) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of 
> Daniel Lawson
> Sent: 06 October 2004 21:39
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: cumulative average moving through time
> 
> 
> The command-line ``bysort pid (ob):gen cave = sum(calc)/ob'' was 
> exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when I said that I was sure 
> there was a more elegant way to produce the results.  I ran both sets 
> of code, and both produce the same values for `cave'.
> 
> Daniel Lawson
> 
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Daniel Egan wrote:
> 
> > Oh, and thanks. I did not get to try Dan Lawson's code. 
> 
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