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Re: st: nested loop for mean and median
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: nested loop for mean and median
Date
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:19:43 +0200
Don't use loops for that, just type:
bys sic fyear country: egen mean_assests = mean(assets)
bys sic fyear country: egen median_assests = median(assets)
Hope this helps,
Maarten
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Nahla Betelmal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalis,
>
> I need to get the mean and median for some firms in a certain year
> (2000-2012) and certain industry (73 industries). e.g. the mean and
> median for assets for the firms operate in industry 6 in year 2004,
> and so on. I tried the following nested loop but I got error (109).
>
> p.s. I need the mean and median as new variables as they will be used
> in further calculations.
>
>
>
>
> foreach v of var Assets Liab Income {
> forval y=2000/2012 {
> forval i= 1/73 {
> qui su `v' if fyear==`y'& sic==`i'& country==1
> gen mean_`v' = r(mean)
> gen median_`v' = r(median)
> }
> }
> }
>
> type mismatch
> r(109);
>
>
> Many thanks
>
> Nahla Betelmal
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