Re: st: generate a column of a summary statistic conditioning on the comparison of the values in two other columns

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

-egen- is the wrong place to look for this. You need to drill down to
a more fundamental level.

As a first stab at this

bysort A (C) : gen mean_so_far = sum(B) / sum(B < .)

except that it's previous values that you want.

This doesn't really grapple with the difference between order date and
delivery date. I expect you may need
to combine order dates and delivery dates in a single date variable.

See http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-11/msg01186.html for a
similar (but not identical) problem.

Nick

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM, David Peng <david.peng99@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a dataset with four variables, A, B, C, and D. A is a variable
> representing the customer number. B is the main variable of interest
> (in this case the dollar amount of a customer order). C is the date a
> customer order was placed and D is the date the same customer order
> was delivered.
>
> I would like to generate a column of summary statistic (let's say I
> want the mean) in the table. Basically, for each customer order, I
> would like to generate a mean value of the dollar amount for all of
> the orders placed by a customer prior to the date the order is placed.
>
> For each observation (i.e., a cusomer order) in the data table, I
> would like to get:
>
> bysort A: egen mean_dollar_amount=mean(B) if B is associated with a
> delivery date D that is earlier than the order date C of the customer
> order in question.
>
>
> As an example, if I have an obervation representing an order placed by
> the customer x with the order date of 12/30/2011, I would like to
> generate the mean of the dollar amount for all of the orders that were
> delivered earlier than the order date of 12/30/2011 for the order
> mentioned above. I need a mean value like this for each observation
> (i.e., customer order) in the data.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
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