The shr is shares of options owned and the opt is value realized from option exercising. Yes, shr is a weight and I'm trying to compute the weighted average over the years. The reason that one company, in one year, could have multiple lines, is because one company, in one year, have multiple executives. One executive could have no share of options, while another could have some. Therefore, there are numbers and missing values. As a matter of fact, I cannot be 100% sure on this either. I think the best I can do is to try both sum/count and the average function, and see which produces the better result. In fact, I just asked my professor for his opinion.
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