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RE: st: Group identifiers within group


From   <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Group identifiers within group
Date   Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:08:11 +0000

Thanks Nick, that's exactly what I was looking for! 

And I guess  lakes and glaciers still wouldn't  do it, so maybe adding swiss cheese holes would help ;)

Isabel

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 15:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Group identifiers within group

Quite so. I didn't read your mail carefully enough.

bysort GroupID AnimalID Parity : gen level2 = _n == 1 by GroupID : replace level2 = sum(level2)

Optimistic numbering scheme allows for just under one trillion animals in Switzerland. You would need to use the lakes and glaciers too....

Nick
[email protected]


On 7 June 2013 14:06,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions! But the input "egen level2 = group(GroupID 
> AnimalID Parity)" just grouped the "GroupID", but not by Animal ID 
> anymore (see output values of level2 below)
>
> AnimalID                Parity  GroupID level2
> CH003381451070                  3       1               1
> CH003381451070                  4       1               2
> CH003381451070                  4       1               2
> CH003381462076                  2       2               3
> CH003381462076                  3       2               4
> CH003381462076                  3       2               4
> CH110003099108                  10      3               5
> CH110003099108                  10      3               5
> CH110003099108                  11      3               6
> CH110003099108                  11      3               6
> CH110003099108                  11      3               6
> CH110003099108                  12      3               7
> CH110003099108                  12      3               7
> CH110003099108                  12      3               7
>
> Also the suggestion by Alexis  "by AnimalID Parity: gen var1= _n"  didn't give me the right values.
>
> AnimalID                Parity  GroupID var1
> CH003381451070                  3       1               1
> CH003381451070                  4       1               1
> CH003381451070                  4       1               2
> CH003381462076                  2       2               1
> CH003381462076                  3       2               1
> CH003381462076                  3       2               2
> CH110003099108                  10      3               1
> CH110003099108                  10      3               2
> CH110003099108                  11      3               1
> CH110003099108                  11      3               2
> CH110003099108                  11      3               3
> CH110003099108                  12      3               1
> CH110003099108                  12      3               2
> CH110003099108                  12      3               3
>
> And here again what I'm trying to get, do you have any other suggestions?
>
>  AnimalID                             Parity                    GroupID              2nd level?
> CH003381451070             3                             1                             1
> CH003381451070             4                             1                             2
> CH003381451070             4                             1                             2
> CH003381462076             2                             2                             1
> CH003381462076             3                             2                             2
> CH003381462076             3                             2                             2
> CH110003099108             10                           3                             1
> CH110003099108             10                           3                             1
> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Freitag, 7. Juni 2013 14:17
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Group identifiers within group
>
> -group()- here is a very old and very undocumented function. I would suggest now to StataCorp, and I think I have suggested before, that calling -group()- should be illegal except under version control.
>
> You are confusing it with the -egen- function of the same name.
>
> I think you seek
>
> egen level2 = group(GroupID AnimalID Parity)
>
> Best not to use informative variable names such as "var1".
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 7 June 2013 13:02,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm trying to create a new variable with a group identifier, but on a 2nd level.  For the variable "GroupID" I did the following:
>>
>> by AnimalID:  gen GroupID = _n
>>
>> Is it possible to do the same but on the 2nd level (based on AnimalID AND Parity), so that I will get the values as shown in the last variable "2nd level"?
>> I've tried: by TierID: gen var1 = group(par), but this doesn't seem to do the job.  Data are sorted by AnimalID and then Parity.
>>
>>
>> AnimalID                             Parity                    GroupID              2nd level?
>> CH003381451070             3                             1                             1
>> CH003381451070             4                             1                             2
>> CH003381451070             4                             1                             2
>> CH003381462076             2                             2                             1
>> CH003381462076             3                             2                             2
>> CH003381462076             3                             2                             2
>> CH110003099108             10                           3                             1
>> CH110003099108             10                           3                             1
>> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
>> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
>> CH110003099108             11                           3                             2
>> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
>> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
>> CH110003099108             12                           3                             3
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>> Isabel
>>
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