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RE: st: reorganizing data


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: reorganizing data
Date   Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:46:47 +0100

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 06 September 2006 17:33
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: reorganizing data
> 
> 
> It can be done. 
> 
> Here is one solution. It is easiest if you know 
> in advance roughly the maximum number of "others"
> any person might have. 
> 
> Warning: untested code ahead. 
> 
> Guess this number, and then add some. Suppose 
> you guess 20, and then add 10. You get 30 
> 
> forval i = 1/30 { 
> 	gen Other`i' = ""
> }
> 
> levelsof Person, local(Persons)
> qui foreach P of local Persons {
> 	levelsof City if Person == "`P'", local(Cities)
> 	local which
> 	foreach C of local Cities {
> 		levels Person if Person != "`P'" & City == "`C'", ///
>   				 local(work) clean
> 		local which : list which | work
> 	}
> 	noi di "`P': `which'"
> 	local nothers : word count `which' 
> 	tokenize `which' 
> 	forval i = 1/`nothers' { 
> 		replace Other`i' = "``i''" if Person == "`P'"
> 	}
> }
> 
> Then clean up any empty variables: 
> 
> 	forval j = 30(-1)1 { 
> 		assert Other`i' == "" 
> 		drop Other`i' 
> 	}
> 
> This loop is designed to fail at the first 
> Other? variable that is not all empty. It 
> will drop in turn Other30, Other29, ... if 
> and only if it is all empty. 
> 
> Alternatively, -dropmiss- from STB-60 can be used. 
> 
> 30 is just pulled out of the air. Your number will differ. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Anna Lehman
>  
> > Going back to your suggestion,
> > If the number of observations is large and the information 
> > does not fit into 
> > a string variable,
> > is there any way I can still store the obtained information?
> > For example, since  for person 1, the list is: 2, 5 4 and 8,
> > Others would contain a string with "2 5 4 8". That is fine. 
> > The problem is 
> > that if the list has many numbers they won't fit into the 
> > variable "Others".
> > Can I store the different numbers (2,5, 4 and 8) in different 
> > columns/variables (instead of creating the variable Others)? 
> > This is the 
> > only way I can think of dealing with a large number of 
> > observations but I'm 
> > not sure how to operationalize it... Any suggestions?
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Anna
> > 
> > >From: n j cox <[email protected]>
> > >Reply-To: [email protected]
> > >To: [email protected]
> > >Subject: Re:st: reorganizing data
> > >Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:25:01 +0100
> > >
> > >This should work with toy datasets. If your identifiers are
> > >long, or your number of observations is large, the information
> > >won't fit into a string variable, so the lines mentioning
> > >"Others" should be deleted.
> > >
> > >gen Others = ""
> > >levelsof Person, local(Persons)
> > >qui foreach P of local Persons {
> > >	levelsof City if Person == "`P'", local(Cities)
> > >	local which
> > >	foreach C of local Cities {
> > >		levels Person if Person != "`P'" & City == 
> > "`C'", ///  				 local(work) 
> > >clean
> > >		local which : list which | work
> > >	}
> > >	noi di "`P': `which'"
> > >	replace Others = "`which'" if Person == "`P'"
> > >}
> > >
> > >Nick
> > >[email protected]
> > >
> > >Anna Lehman
> > >
> > >I have a dataset with the following structure:
> > >
> > >City   Person_id
> > >A          1
> > >A          2
> > >B          1
> > >B          5
> > >C          1
> > >C          5
> > >C          4
> > >D          8
> > >D          1
> > >
> > >I would like to obtain the following:
> > >for each and every person, a list with the people that have 
> > apartments in
> > >the same city (independently of which city). For example, 
> > for person 1, 
> > >this
> > >list would be: 2, 5 4 and 8. And for person 5 the list 
> would be: 1 .
> > >
> > >Can you think of a relatively easy way of acomplishing this?
> 
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