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MCENTER: Stata module to center variables at their means

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Jeffrey S. Simons () (University of South Dakota)
Abstract

This routine centers variables at their mean and creates new variables, C_varname, with a mean of zero. New variable names are unique and will append numbers to the end as needed. Variable labels specifying the variable is centered (and the subset the centering was based upon) are attached to the variables. Use of the options can center variables at mean +/- some multiple of the sd.

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Software component provided by Boston College Department of Economics in its series Statistical Software Components with number S445601.

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Programming language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8
Date of creation: 26 Aug 2004
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Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s445601

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Keywords: centering; data transformation; mean; standard deviation;

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