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re: st: loop for z-score
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Red Owl <[email protected]>
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re: st: loop for z-score
Date
Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:32:20 -0500
In addition to Nick Cox's suggestion to use -egen-'s -mean()- and -sd()-
functions, you could consider the -center- ado program by Ben Jann.
*** BEGIN CODE ***
net describe center, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/c)
*** END CODE ***
Red Owl
[email protected]
> Almazea Fatima <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a variable "quantity", I want to standardize(z score 3) it by
"region" and "season"
> I used following for this purpose:
> egen z=std(quantity)
> Problem is it do not have "by" option, so I want to do it by loop..
> Can anybody help me to create loop for it???????
>
> Thank you in anticipation.
>
> Regards
> Almazea
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