st: Re: AW: egen rowmeaan

[Dirk Enzmann <dirk.enzmann@uni-hamburg.de>]

Answering Martin Weiss
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1008/date/article-118.html

I wrote
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1008/date/article-229.html

Sorry, I forgot the essential point to capture the error of -which-:

* ------------------------------------------
cap which scores
if _rc ssc install scores

clear*
set obs 1000

foreach var of newlist var1-var10{
    gen `var'= 10*uniform()
    replace `var'=  cond(runiform()>.645,.,`var')
}

* Version 1:
egen float rownonmissings = rownonmiss(var*)
egen float rowmean = rowmean(var*) if inrange(rownonmissings,7,.)
drop rownonmissings

* Version 2:
scores rowmean2 = mean(var*), nv(7)

* Check:
sum rowmean rowmean2
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