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Re: st: Running Product Function
From
Yuval Arbel <[email protected]>
To
statalist <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Running Product Function
Date
Sun, 9 Dec 2012 23:19:45 +0200
Dear statalisters,
Please ignore my previous e-mails regarding this question
After a short additional search, I found a very nice (and well known)
trick proposed by Nick Cox to address the problem (which, from some
reason did not come to my mind):
bysort group : gen prod = sum(ln(x))
by group : replace prod = exp(prod[_N])
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
> P.S. According to stata's help, the details of the author of the
> -prod()- function is:
>
> Philip Ryan
> Department of Public Health
> University of Adelaide
> South Australia
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Yuval Arbel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters,
>>
>> I appreciate very much your assistance in the following question:,
>>
>> I'm looking for an equivalent function for -gen y1=sum()- which will
>> calculate running product for each point in time
>>
>> In fact, what I would like to calculate is a running geometric mean
>>
>> Note also that -gen y2=prod()- does not work (i.e., stata does not
>> identify the function). Only -egen y2=prod()- works, but it generates
>> only one product for each panel, and this is not what I need.
>>
>> Finally, I tried the -amean- command,, but it simply gives summary
>> statistics of different means, and it is not a function..
>> --
>> Dr. Yuval Arbel
>> School of Business
>> Carmel Academic Center
>> 4 Shaar Palmer Street,
>> Haifa 33031, Israel
>> e-mail1: [email protected]
>> e-mail2: [email protected]
>> *
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>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Yuval Arbel
> School of Business
> Carmel Academic Center
> 4 Shaar Palmer Street,
> Haifa 33031, Israel
> e-mail1: [email protected]
> e-mail2: [email protected]
--
Dr. Yuval Arbel
School of Business
Carmel Academic Center
4 Shaar Palmer Street,
Haifa 33031, Israel
e-mail1: [email protected]
e-mail2: [email protected]
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