You're correct. It does not work. Why do you think it should? Just
guessing at what you think the syntax might be is not a good strategy.
summarize Y, meanonly
gen X = r(mean)
is one way to do it.
Nick
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Shuaizhang Feng
Suppose I have a data set that only contains one variable Y. and I want
to add a variable x that equals the mean (or median) of Y for all
observations. How do I do that? Apparantly x=mean(Y) doesn't seem to
work.
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