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Re: st: RE: finding max of several variables


From   "Data Analytics Corp." <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: finding max of several variables
Date   Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:12:38 -0400

Thanks for the reference - I'll look for this.

Walt



Nick Cox wrote:
Such problems have been recently reviewed in

SJ-9-1  pr0046  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata:
Rowwise
        (help rowsort, rowranks if installed) . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
J. Cox
        Q1/09   SJ 9(1):137--157
        shows how to exploit functions, egen functions, and Mata
        for working rowwise; rowsort and rowranks are introduced

The programs -rowsort- and -rowranks- are downloadable from the Stata
Journal to all, subscribers or not.
Regardless of that, the position of the maximum is obtainable from code
like this: gen pos = . gen max = -1 tokenize "3 4 7 11 12" forval j = 1/5 { replace pos = `j' if prob``j'' > max & prob``j'' < . replace max = prob``j'' if prob``j'' > max & prob``j'' < . } This isn't subtle about ties. Nick [email protected]
Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.

I'm still new to Stata programming, so I hope someone can help with a simple problem. I have five variables that are probabilities estimated from mlogit: prob3, prob4, prob7, prob11, prob12, each with 734 cases. I want to find the max for each case using something like

max(prob3, prob4, prob7, prob11, prob12)

but then get the position in this list for that max for each case. In short, for case 1, if the max is prob4, I want to get 2; if it's prob11,

I want 4; etc.  I should have 734 positions of the max in the list.  How

can this be done?  Any help is appreciated.

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