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RE: st: Maximum value for a variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Maximum value for a variable
Date
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:02:20 +0000
The question does make sense: Ajjee is to be understood as wanting a rolling mean.
Nick
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may be there's something I'm missing. Can't you get the results you're looking for by just using the commands "egen" (and then "max"), "bysort" (to do it for each country) and "in" (if data are sorted by year) or "if" (to put a condition on the year)?
ajjee
>
> I have a panel dataset over the period 1960-2010 for 30
> countries. I want to
> compute the maximum value for a variable over the last 15 years
> for each
> country. For example, for Austria, I want to compute the max of
> gdp growth
> from 1984-1999 for the year 1999 and 1985-2000 for the year 2000
> and so on.
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