Carole,
Carole Wilson wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of stata code to generate a powerset of a
> list in stata?
>
> I will be using the elements of the subsets in different
> calls to a routine.
> So, given {1, 2, 3}, I would like stata to return: {1}, {2}, {3}, {1,
> 2}, {1, 3}, {2, 3}, {1, 2, 3} (return of the null set is optional)
> possibly returning the subsets in a variable.
> In a simplified version of my code, I will be generating variables
> based on these subsets and their complements e.g.:
> s1=x1*(1-x2)*(1-x3)
> s2=x2*(1-x1)*(1-x3)
> s3=x3*(1-x1)*(1-x2)
> s4=x1*x2*(1-x3)
> s5=x1*x3*(1-x2)
> s6=x2*x3*(1-x1)
> s7=x1*x2*x3
>
> I'll also be generating variables from subsets that contain
> specific elements:
> r1=x1*(x1+x2)*(x1+x3)*(x1+x2+x3) <==subsets that contain 1
> r2=x2*(x1+x2)*(x2+x3)*(x1+x2+x3) <==subsets that contain 2
> r3=x3*(x1+x3)*(x2+x3)*(x1+x2+x3) <==subsets that contain 3
>
> My goal, of course, is to generalize these operations to n
> elements of a list
>
> Thank you,
> Carole Wilson
Maybe you can adapt the program _ffdtcomb, which I made a while
ago, for your needs?
type http://www.nat.sdu.dk/users/nat-sdu/jkha01/ffdt/_ffdtcomb.ado
It takes a string of elements, e.g. a varlist, and returns all
possible combinations of the elements. The combinations are returned
in r().
The syntax is:
_ffdtcomb , n(integer) Elist(str) [k(integer 0)]
Example:
. _ffdtcomb , n(3) elist(Hello cruel world)
. return list
macros:
r(cmax) : "7"
r(v1) : "Hello"
r(v2) : "cruel"
r(v3) : "world"
r(v4) : "Hello cruel"
r(v5) : "Hello world"
r(v6) : "cruel world"
r(v7) : "Hello cruel world"
-- Jesper K. Hansen
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