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st: RE: Calculate the mean of y if there are many similar x


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Calculate the mean of y if there are many similar x
Date   Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:28:19 -0000

. whelp collapse 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Eik Leong Swee
 
> I have a problem here trying to sort my data. I have 2 
> variables y and x. Each one is of
> length 15000. However, y is unique but x is not i.e. for some 
> values of y, there are more than one
> x. Specifically, there are 3573 unique values of x. I wish to 
> take the mean of y for those x's
> that are the same, so that I end up only with a unique set of 
> 3573 (y,x). I can either manually
> compute the mean 3573 times, or hopefully someone out there 
> knows a command I can use. 

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