st: Averaging across variables

From	"kelly johnson" <[email protected]>
To	[email protected]
Subject	st: Averaging across variables
Date	Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:24:44 -0400

hi folks,

suppose i have a data set with say, many variables.

how can i create a new variable that is the (arithmetic) mean of all the variables starting with certain letters (i.e. using the '*' operator)?

thanks again!

kj

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