Ray, Bryan
>
> Just a quick comment on the analysis of these data...It
> looks like a vote
> can be either yes, no, or abstain. I am no expert on UN
> voting patterns and
> the like, but I just thought that there might be some
> significance to the
> abstentions that you might lose by simply looking at, for a
> given vote,
> votes that match the U.S.'s vote.
>
> Maybe you have already thought about a way to deal with this or have
> determined that it is not an issue, but I thought it
> worthwhile to raise.
Good thought. Irrespective of whether A.F. Mkenda wants
to follow this up, a way of implementing this may
be of interest:
Your scores may well differ, but I'll illustrate
with
label def vote 1 "N" 2 "A" 3 "Y"
We initialise a counter again:
gen howdiff = 0
Now loop over the variables:
forval i = 1 / 5 {
encode vote`i', gen(Nvote`i') label(vote)
replace howdiff = howdiff + abs(Nvote`i' - Nvote`i'[4])
}
Again, this wires the observation number
of the US (4 in what I had after a -sort-).
Nick
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