Fabian,
it is very unlikely there is a mistake in the Stata egen() functions.
Skewness and standard deviation are also reported by -summarize price,
detail-. Compare your results with this. If they differ, there must be
a mistake somewhere in your code. Paste the exact commands you used,
and we may be able to help.
HTH,
Eva
2008/9/30 Fabian Brenner <[email protected]>:
> Dear all:
>
> I used egen skp=skew(price) and egen stp=std(price) to get the standard deviation and the skewness of variable "price" (stock prices).
>
> Since the results are quite strange (eg. skewness = 102) I wounder whether there is a mistake in the commands.
>
> Perhaps someone can confirm both commands or tell me what might be wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Fabian
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