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Re: st: median of consecutive groups - avoiding loops
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: median of consecutive groups - avoiding loops
Date
Wed, 11 May 2011 23:19:15 +0100
This code won't work for various reasons. One is that the groups
produced are disjoint, but they should overlap.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, daniel klein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess in most situations there is a way to work around.
>
> Try
>
> g int new_group = cond(mod(group, 2), group, group-1)
> bys new_group : egen median = median(value)
>
> However, in general I think there is no way you can use Stata
> efficiently without loops.
>
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