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Re: st:Help on egen mean variable by state and industry


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st:Help on egen mean variable by state and industry
Date   Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:05:12 +0100

Looks fine to me. The -by()- option is undocumented in recent versions
of Stata, but works fine.

For "STATA" read "Stata".

Nick

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM, prakash singh <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am working with a polled cross section data of firm from different
> states of India on STATA 10. I want to generate a variable sales_m
> where sales_m is mean sale of firms in a industry within a state. Now
> I use this command
>
> egen sales_m = mean(sales), by (state industry)
>
> Now I have this boubt that, am I writing the syntex correctly or not
> to creat the variable correctly.
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