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| From | Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Calculating SD of a variable |
| Date | Fri, 20 May 2011 13:01:14 +0200 |
Hi, one question for you: What is the standard deviation of the number 1.448922432? This is what you are asking Stata do calculate! Leave out the variable year in the by() option and that should do what you want. Best Oliver Am 20.05.2011 12:45, schrieb lreine ycenna:
Hello, I have a list of countries and their annual GDP growth rates. I need to calculate the standard deviations of the growth rate. But I seem to have done it wrong: Using the command egen sd = sd(gdp) gives me the same number for the entire column Using egen sd= sd (gdp), by(countryno year) gives me missing values. Am I missing something? My panel data looks like this: countryno year gdp 122 1995 1.448922432 122 1996 1.802327838 122 1997 1.939189289 122 1998 3.486108757 122 1999 3.057156394 122 2000 3.403232592 122 2001 0.706544087 122 2002 0.572674299 122 2003 0.806288363 122 2004 2.143516615 122 2005 2.0000 122 2006 3.021230987 124 1970 6.058892112 124 1971 3.1155209 124 1972 4.699826137 124 1973 6.212549621 124 1974 4.21133101 124 1975 -2.174872486 124 1976 5.612220928 124 1977 0.585991929 124 1978 2.844723097 etc.. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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