Re: st: calculating mean without own observation

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

I'm sure there's a more efficient way but one option would just be to loop over the observations manually and calculate the mean each time:

clear

input i      value      category
1     5            1
2     5            1
3     10          1
4      2           2
5      2           2
end

gen value_mean=.
forval i=1/`=_N' {
	summarize value if category==category[`i'] & _n!=`i', meanonly
	quietly replace value_mean=r(mean) in `i'
}

list

Phil

On 24/05/2011, at 12:02 AM, Guo Xu wrote:

> Dear Stata list,
> 
> How do I calculate a mean (or any other summary statistic) excluding
> the *current* observation?
> 
> For example, I have following data:
> 
> i      value      category
> 1     5            1
> 2     5            1
> 3     10          1
> 4      2           2
> 5      2           2
> 
> I would like to calculate the mean for each category (egen value_mean
> = mean(value), by(category)), but exclude the i-th observation:
> For i=1, for example, the mean value by category 1 would be (5+10)/2.
> For i=3, it would be (5+5)/2. For i=4, it would be 2/1.
> 
> I guess there must be some simple *if* condition for this
> manipulation, but I failed to find it - would be most grateful for
> help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guo
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