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st: RE: AW: AW: Fun with switching point


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: AW: AW: Fun with switching point
Date   Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:16:48 +0100

In one of many terminologies, each switching point defines the start of
a new spell. Thus in addition, 

1. -tsspell- from SSC is a useful tool. The variable desired by Quang
Nguyen is just _seq - 1, in terms of variables created automatically by
-tsspell-. 

2. Independently of that, a fairly detailed discussion of techniques for
handling spells was given in 

SJ-7-2  dm0029  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Identifying
spells
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
J. Cox
        Q2/07   SJ 7(2):249--265                                 (no
commands)
        shows how to handle spells with complete control over
        spell specification

By the way, and this is a crucial detail:

I am guessing what Martin's code and Quang's example don't respect: that
you want to do this separately by identifier. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Martin Weiss

Also look at the techniques provided by Nick in the FAQ:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/#manip

Martin Weiss

*************
clear*

input byte(id x)
1      1
1      1
1      1
1      1
1      0
1      0
1      1
1      1
2      1
end

compress

gen byte y=0
replace y= /* 
*/ cond(x[_n-1]!=x[_n], 0,  /* 
*/ y[_n-1]+1) in 2/l

list, noobs
*************

Quang Nguyen

Suppose, I have the following data:

id      x
1      1
1      1
1      1
1      1
1      0
1      0
1      1
1      1
2      1
..

Now, I would like to generate a variable _y _such that _y_ takes the
ordering value of 1, 2, 3... as long as the corresponding _x_  takes
the same value as the previous observation. Otherwise,  _y_ is 0.
Specifically, from the above data, we have:

id      x        y
1      1
1      1         1
1      1         2
1      1         3
1      0         0
1      0         1
1      1         0
1      1         1
2      1         2
..

Can you suggest a way to do this in Stata?

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