[Gretl-users] Re: partial in mean function

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 5:22 AM Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <p002264(a)staff.univpm.it&gt; wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, Paolo Chirico wrote: > >> Dears, >> in function reference about /mean/ function there is : >> Arguments: /x (series or list)// >> // partial (boolean, optional)/ >> >> Can you give me an example including /*partial*/ (a boolean condition), >> please? >> Does this mean that I can calculate the mean of a variable in a subsample >> (defined by a boolean condition) without using the *smpl *command? > For example: > > <hansl> > open mroz87 > m = mean(WA) # overall mean age > me = mean(LFP ? WA : NA) # mean age for employed women only > </hansl> Yes, the suggestion above works fine without the "partial" flag (NAs are automatically ignored in calculating the mean of a single series). The effect of the "partial" flag is more complex: it applies if the first argument is a list rather than a series, in which case the value returned is a series holding the cross-sectional mean at each observation. In that case the partial flag is needed if you want to ignore NAs in each cross section. Allin _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list -- gretl-users(a)gretlml.univpm.it To unsubscribe send an email to gretl-users-leave(a)gretlml.univpm.it Website: https://gretlml.univpm.it/postorius/lists/gretl-users.gretlml.univpm.it/