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Re: st: RE: Data Management


From   Rijo John <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Data Management
Date   Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:43:11 -0500

Very interesting observation Nick. Thanks for this.

Rijo.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you seek are often called "spells", in this case periods in which
> prices remain constant. There are many other names too, including
> "runs".
>
> My reason for using the first term is that Stata resources are available
> under that heading:
>
> 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
>
> tsspell from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/t
>    'TSSPELL': module for identification of spells or runs in time
> series /
>    tsspell examines the data, which must be tsset time series, to /
> identify
>    spells or runs, which are contiguous sequences defined / by some
>    condition. tsspell generates new variables indicating / distinct
> spells,
>
> With -tsset- data and -tsspell- from SSC, a solution is
>
> tsspell P_t
> gen change = _seq - 1
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Rijo John
>
>  I have a time series data set as follows.
>
> ID      year    P_t-1   P_t
> 1       1990    16      16
> 1       1991    16      16
> 1       1996    16      16
> 1       2005    42      42
> 1       2006    42      42
> 1       2007    42      42
> 2       1990    29      29
> 2       1991    29      29
> 2       1992    29      29
>
> Where P_t and P_t-1 represents price in year t and t-1 respectively.
> What I wish to achieve is to create a new variable "Change". This
> variable should show the number of years passed since the last change
> in P_t. In the above example the data should finally look like below.
>
> ID      year    P_t-1   P_t Change
> 1       1990     .      16      0
> 1       1991    16      16      1
> 1       1996    16      16      2
> 1      1997 16     16     3
> 1       2005    16      42      0
> 1       2006    42      42      1
> 1       2007    42      42      2
> 2       1990     .      29      0
> 2       1991    29      29      1
> 2       1992    29      29      2
> 2      1993 29     35     0
>
> If I do
>
> bysort ID P_t : gen Change=_n-1 I get the varible numbered but it
> doesnt sort the year. If I sort ID and year then I cant use the _n to
> generate these numbers.
>
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