Re: st: manual demeaning of panel data

[Scott Cunningham <scunning@gmail.com>]

Thanks Clive.  This sounds like exactly what I need. -sc
On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Clive Nicholas wrote:

> Scott Cunningham wrote:
>
> > I want to manually demean my data to use in a separate fixed effects
> > regression model.  If "id" marks each individual, and "year" marks
> > each year of data, how can I manually demean this data (ie subtract
> > the mean [across years[ of each variable marked by "id")?
> Downloading Ben Jann's excellent -center- from SSC and then performing
> something like
>
> . bysort id (year) : center x1 x2 x3 xetc
>
> should do the trick, although you may want to alter the above  
> example to
> taste.
>
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