Jason
I am not sure you want the -collapse- command at all.
The command:
by Personid Referraldate, sort: keep if _n == 1
will -keep- the first observation of each Personid, and since you have
sorted on Referraldate within Personid, that first observation will be the
one with the earliest date. _n is Stata's built-in
current-observation-counter (I used SPSS a very long, long time ago and I
think it had a "seqnum" construct?).
I am assuming that your Referraldate variable is actually in Stata's
elapsed date form, so it can be treated as any other continuous numeric
variable. If not, check -help date- and especially -help datefcn-. Dates
are almost always best stored in Stata's elapsed form.
Phil
At 11:18 AM 12/02/2004 +1100, you wrote:
Dear all,
I need help regading the collapse command.
I want to collapse by personid, and keep the values for all variables
corresponding with the earliest(minimum) referralid. I want a final file
that has the first referral for each person including the date and agency
of that referral. The problem I am having is that the collapse is
defaulting to give the mean of the date and agency (or the minimum).
For instanace
Personid Referralid Referraldate(d.m.y) Referringagency
25 1 21.12.03 291
25 24 31.01.04 290
25 75 25.02.04 292
78 4 10.11.03 290
78 22 12.12.03 275
I want to collapse by the minimum value of referralid but I dont want the
minimum or mean value for referraldate or referringagency. I want the
values that correspond to the minimum referralid.
The result I want is:
Personid Referralid Referraldate(d.m.y) Referringagency
25 1 21.12.03 291
78 4 10.11.03 290
This is probably very easy, and i apologise for the trouble, but having
worked with SPSS for many years now, I am trying to find my way through
STATA logic as best as possible.
Regards
Jason Payne
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Payne
Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2004 9:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: Transformations
Thank you for your help,
Is there a way to list multiple cases that dont fit a standard expression
in the replace command. for example:
replace var1=1 if var2==1 or 3
I want cases 1 and 3 to have value 1 for var1, but not case 2 and rather
than writing the whole syntax twice, i would like to shorten it:
replace var1=1 if caseid==1
replace var1=1 if caseid==3
Any clues?
Regards
Jason Payne
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Violence, Property Crime and Drugs
Australian Institute of Criminology
GPO Box 2944 Canberra ACT 2601
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel +61 2 6260 9283 Fax +61 2 6260 9201
Visit the AIC homepage www.aic.gov.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Williams [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:53 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Transformations
At 11:43 AM 2/11/2004 +1100, Jason Payne wrote:
>Dear STATAlistservers
>
>I am trying to transform data in variables. What is the equivalent STATA>
syntax for this SPSS command
>
>if (var1=2) var2=1.
Stata does things kind of backwards from SPSS:
gen var2 = 1 if var1==2
Note the ==
If var2 already exists, instead say
replace var2 = 1 if var1==2
But, what do you want when var1 does not equal 2? Missing? A 0-1
dichotomy? There may be some other ways to approach this, depending on whaty
our ultimate goal is.
>This syntax only works if you want to create a new variable, however in
>some cases I might with to modify an existing variable for one case
>only. This is particularly useful in cleaning string variables where
>there are spelling mistakes. In SPSS I would just type:
>
>if (caseid=1) stringvar='SPSS'.
>if (caseid=2) stringvar='STATA'.
replace stringvar="SPSS" in 1
replace stringvar="STATA" in 2
I'm assuming these are the first and second cases in your data. If not
necessarily so, and caseid is a variable in your data set, then try
replace stringvar="SPSS" if caseid==1
replace stringvar="STATA" if caseid==2
Or, just go in to the data editor and do it! Lot easier sometimes really.
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