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RE: st: how to generate mean for a secquence of five year of a variable


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: how to generate mean for a secquence of five year of a variable
Date   Thu, 5 May 2011 15:48:11 +0100

As I understand, that reduces the data. You'd need to -expand- and -merge- back. 

For blocks, you just round the time variable and fire up -egen-'s -mean()-. I just gave an example in another thread. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Oliver Jones


I have never used -rolling- and just had a quick look at the help
file of it.

Couldn't -rolling- be used for both possibilities, i.e. calculating
the mean for separate blocks of five years and moving blocks, by
specifying the stepsize(5) option?

Am 05.05.2011 16:23, schrieb Nick Cox:

> If that's the right diagnosis:
>
> -rolling-
>
> -mvsumm- (SSC)

Oliver Jones

> ok, now I got it. You want some kind of running-mean.
> The function -lowess- has an option to create a new
> variable that is a running mean.
> BUT, this is not exactly what we want here, because this
> mean is calculated at the center of the running window.
> We want the mean at the right end of the window.
>
> Am 05.05.2011 15:53, schrieb prakash singh:
>
>> yearid	countryid	var1	var2	
>> 1980	1	7.25	
>> 1981	1	8.25		
>> 1982	1	9.5		
>> 1983	1	7.5		
>> 1984	1	7.75	8.05 (mean of first five observation of var1)
>> ...........................................
>> ........................................
>> 2001	1	8.25		
>> 2002	1	9		
>> 2003	1	9.5		
>> 2004	1	8		
>> 2005	1	10	8.95 (mean of last five observation of var1)
>>
>> similarly for all other country.

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