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RE: st: RE: Decile sorts


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Decile sorts
Date   Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:26:20 -0000

I guess you're onto something good, except
that second time around the loop -deciles-
already exists. So this needs a tweak, 
depending on whether -deciles- is dispensable. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
> Sent: 09 November 2006 23:46
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Decile sorts
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not:
> 
> foreach X of varlist c1* {
>     xtile deciles=`X', n(10)
>     bys deciles: egen R`X'=mean(`X')
> }
> 
> ?
> 
> hth,
> Jeph
> 
> 
> Nick Cox wrote:
> > Various comments sprinkled here and there. You may have
> > strong reasons to use these decile bins, but binning 
> > strikes me as, usually, at best a means towards an end 
> > (or perhaps ends towards some means). Some nonparametric
> > regression might do more justice to the data. 
> > 
> > Also, you are mixing two naming conventions 1...10 
> > and 10...90. Just use one. 
> > 
> > Nick 
> > [email protected] 
> > 
> > Thomas Erdmann
> >  
> >> I am trying to sort my observations into deciles according to 
> >> one attribute
> >> and afterwards calculating the average of another attribute 
> >> of those ten groups. 
> >  
> >> Please find the code I came up with below [lines with ... are 
> >> omitted], yrm is the time variable (YearMonth)
> >>
> >> (1) As far as I can tell it works out, but a) it's a lot 
> of code and
> >> b)produces a lot of variables and c)generating the output is 
> >> rather awkward.
> >>
> >> Could you give me hints on how to implement a smarter 
> >> solution or if there
> >> are any errors in the way the calculation is carried out currently?
> >  
> >> *** Generate Percentiles
> >> sort yrm 	
> >> 	foreach X of varlist c1* {
> >> 	by yrm: egen p10_`X'= pctile(`X'), p(10.0)
> >> 	by yrm: egen p20_`X'= pctile(`X'), p(20.0)
> >> 	by yrm: egen p30_`X'= pctile(`X'), p(30.0)
> >> 	...
> >> 	by yrm: egen p90_`X'= pctile(`X'), p(90.0)
> >> 	}
> > 
> > This is two loops rolled out into one. 
> > 
> > 	sort yrm 
> > 	foreach X of varlist c1* { 
> > 		forval i = 10(10)90 { 
> > 			by yrm : egen p`i'_`X' = pctile(`X'), p(`i') 
> > 		}
> > 	} 
> > 
> >  
> >> *** Sort into Percentile groups
> >> 	foreach X of varlist c1* {
> >> 	gen G_`X'=1 if `X'<p10_`X' & `X'~=.
> >> 	replace G_`X'=2 if `X'>p10_`X' & `X'<p20_`X' 
> >> 	... 
> >> 	replace G_`X'=9 if `X'>p80_`X' & `X'<p90_`X' 
> >> 	replace G_`X'=10 if `X'>p90_`X' & `X'~=.
> >> 	}
> > 
> > Similar story with boundary conditions. 
> > 
> > 	foreach X of varlist c1* {
> > 		gen byte G_`X' = `X' < p10_`X' 
> > 		
> > 		forval i = 2/9 { 
> > 			local j = 10 * `i' 
> > 			replace G_`X' = `i' if `X' < p`j'_`X' & 
> G_`X' == 0 
> > 		} 
> > 
> > 		replace G_`X' = cond(`X' == ., ., 10) if G_`X' == 0 
> > 	}
> > 
> >  
> >> *** Calculate return mean for each group
> >> sort yrm
> >> 	foreach X of varlist G* {
> >> 	by yrm: egen R1`X'= mean(c1ds_ri) if `X'==1
> >> 	by yrm: egen R2`X'= mean(c1ds_ri) if `X'==2
> >> 	...
> >> 	by yrm: egen R9`X'= mean(c1ds_ri) if `X'==9
> >> 	by yrm: egen R10`X'= mean(c1ds_ri) if `X'==10
> >> 	}
> > 
> > Why do you need all these variables? The results 
> > for bin are disjoint, so can be put in a single 
> > variable. 
> > 
> > 	foreach X of varlist G* { 
> > 		bysort yrm `X' : egen R`X' = mean(c1ds_ri)
> > 	} 
> > 
> > Having said that, it can probably done more 
> > directly with a series of -collapse-s. 
> > 
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