On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Davoud Taghawi-Nejad wrote: > I have a dataset, which I would like to compact form 10 to 1. In other > words, there are 10 measurements a year. But I would like to average the > 10 obs int 1. I try the following:? > > ? setobs 10 1:01 > Full data range: 1:01 - 50:10 (n = 500) > > ? dataset compact 1 > This command won't work with the current periodicity. That's right: frequency 10 is not supported for compaction. You can, however, compact data of arbitrary frequency using matrix methods. The following script creates a frequency-10 dataset, adds a random variable, and converts to frequency 1 by averaging: nulldata 50 setobs 10 1.1 --special genr x = normal() matrix X = x matrix Z = meanc(mshape(X,10,5))' Z nulldata 5 --preserve setobs 1 1970 --time-series series compx = Z print compx --byobs