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RE: st: Calculating SD of a variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Calculating SD of a variable
Date
Fri, 20 May 2011 12:24:24 +0100
Think more slowly! Unless you want to average over countries, you need to use that too.
You can define 5-year blocks whatever way you want, e.g.
gen quinquennium = 5 * floor(year/5)
and then use
egen sd = sd(gdp), by(countryno quinquennium)
-- but -- and it's your problem not mine -- did you think about using rolling SDs rather than block-based SDs? Blocks are more arbitrary (why start a block in 2000 rather than 1999 or 2001, for example?). Check out -rolling-.
Nick
[email protected]
lreine ycenna
Thanks.
I should've mentioned that I need 5-year standard deviations of the growth rate.
So I think I need to keep year instead of countryno. The average out
the SD for each 5 years.
On 20 May 2011 12:07, Oliver Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 20.05.2011 13:01, schrieb Oliver Jones:
>
>> Leave out the variable year in the by() option and that should do what
>> you want.
>
> Or leave out the variable countryno.
> It depends on your aim:
> - sd over time for each country , or
> - sd over countries for each year
>
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