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Re: st: RE: Re: How to speed up loop


From   Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Re: How to speed up loop
Date   Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:54:08 +0200

Your're right.

Nick Cox wrote:
> Thanks for the compliment, but why the -if-?
>
> If -mlineno- is missing, age[.] will be too,
> and so the -if- is redundant.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> > Ulrich Kohler
> > Sent: 15 September 2004 17:48
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: st: Re: How to speed up loop
> >
> >
> > Nick's approach is much better than mine. But probably with
> > an if qualifier:
> >
> > . by hhid : gen mage = age[mlineno] if mlineno < .
> >
> > uli
> >
> > Nick Cox wrote:
> > > Looks like
> > >
> > > by hhid : gen mage = age[mlineno]
> > >
> > > to me. No loops, no -merge-.
> > >
> > > Nick
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > Friedrich Huebler
> > >
> > > > I appreciate the responses that I received so far but
> >
> > realize that my
> >
> > > > initial message was not precise enough.
> > > >
> > > > The variable mlineno lists the line number of a household member's
> > > > mother. In household 1 in my example data, household
> >
> > member 2 is the
> >
> > > > mother of household member 3. In household 2, 1 is the
> >
> > mother of 2,
> >
> > > > and 3 is the mother of 4 and 5. I would like to create a variable
> > > > that lists the age of each household member's mother. The result
> > > > should look like this:
> > > >
> > > > hhid    lineno       age   mlineno      mage
> > > >    1         1        32         .         .
> > > >    1         2        30         .         .
> > > >    1         3         5         2        30
> > > >    2         1        68         .         .
> > > >    2         2        41         1        68
> > > >    2         3        40         .         .
> > > >    2         4        17         3        40
> > > >    2         5        14         3        40
> > > >
> > > > The loop that I am using to create the variable mage
> >
> > works perfectly
> >
> > > > but it is very slow with a large number of observations.
> > > >
> > > > Friedrich
> > > >
> > > > --- Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > I am looking for advice to speed up a loop. The loop determines
> > > > > characteristics of other household members in household
> >
> > survey data
> >
> > > > > and is taken from this Stata FAQ:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/members.html
> > > > >
> > > > > The data has the variables hhid (household ID), lineno
> >
> > (line number
> >
> > > > > of household member), age, and mlineno (mother's line number).
> > > > >
> > > > > hhid    lineno       age   mlineno
> > > > >    1         1        32         .
> > > > >    1         2        30         .
> > > > >    1         3         5         2
> > > > >    2         1        68         .
> > > > >    2         2        41         1
> > > > >    2         3        40         .
> > > > >    2         4        17         3
> > > > >    2         5        14         3
> > > > >
> > > > > The following code creates the variable mage with the
> >
> > mother's age.
> >
> > > > > gen byte mage=.
> > > > > sum lineno, meanonly
> > > > > forvalues i = 1/`r(max)' {
> > > > >   gen byte tag = 1 if lineno==`i'
> > > > >   bysort hhid: egen byte iage = max(tag*age)
> > > > >   replace mage=iage if mlineno==`i'
> > > > >   drop tag iage
> > > > >   }
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried changing -bysort hhid- to -by hhid- but the
> >
> > time needed for
> >
> > > > > the loop is the same. Running the loop -quietly- also makes no
> > > > > difference. Can anything be done to make this loop go faster?
> > >
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