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Re: st: RE: Time-Demeaning one's Data


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Time-Demeaning one's Data
Date   Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:52 -0400

Did you forget to list your variables in   [YOUR VARIABLES HERE] ?  If
not,  please show your commands as the FAQ  request

Steve

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Sinan Hastorun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for this. When I enter the code into STATA, however, it gives me the following error in the end:
> varlist required
> r(100);
>
> Does one need to add another command in order to finish generating the time-demeaned variables?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Duha Altindag
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 12:52 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Time-Demeaning one's Data
>
> Do you mean subtracting the mean of each individual over time from
> each observation of that individual?
> If id is individual identifier, then
>
> foreach v of varlist  [YOUR VARIABLES HERE] {
> bysort id: egen mean_`v'=mean(`v')
> g demeaned_`v'=`v'-mean_`v'
> drop mean_`v'
> }
>
> should do it.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Sinan Hastorun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Statalist users,
>>
>> I need to time-demean my data before I can run my analysis. Is there a quick way to do this? Thank you very much for your input.
>>
>> Sinan Hastorun, M.A.
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