Re: st: Time series - what to do before a product launch?; how to count n obs showing an attribute in each year?

[Rodrigo Refoios Camejo <refoioscamejo@gmail.com>]

(As expected) you were right and it was coming back wrong because I
had not dropped the obs corresponding to the products before launch.
But I realised have another problem now... I want to count the number
of products that are generic in a subclass for a given quarter, but
because it's retrieving the number of presentation (id) that are
generic in a subclass for a given quarter. This because in each
product there are several presentation each one with one obs per
quarter. How can I count the # products in each subclass in a given
quarter that are generic instead of the # presentations (id)? The
dataset looks something like this:

id product subclass generic quarter
1      1          1            1           1
2      1          1            1           2
3      1          1            1           3
4      2          1            0           1
5      2          1            0           2
6      2          1            0           3
7      3          2            1           1
8      3          2            1           2
9      3          2            1           3

Many thanks in advance!


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I don't think so. The -by(subclass quarter)- subdivides observations
> according to combinations of the two variables, which I thought was what
> you wanted.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Rodrigo Refoios Camejo
>
> Thanks for your quick reply, Nick... however, your suggestion is
> returning only the generic==1 in each subclass and ignoring the by
> quarter, i.e. sum is the same for all obs of thin each subclass
> irrespectively of the quarter it was observed at.
>
> Any idea what may be going wrong? I've grouped quarter, I've sorted by
> quarter subclass and still the same result...
>
> On 4/12/10, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> The larger question here is "How should I model this?" which is
>> difficult at the best of times and in any case better left to
>> subject-matter experts.
>>
>> The smaller question is more my thing.
>>
>> egen sum = total(generic == 1), by(subclass quarter)
>>
>> may be the sort of solution you need.
>>
>> Nick
>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>
>> Rodrigo Refoios Camejo [edited]
>>
>> I have 10 years of panel data on pricing and quantities sold of
>> pharmaceuticals. For each presentation (i.e. dosage and package) of
>> each product I have data on the prices and quantities sold in each
>> quarter. My idea is to fit a regression model with price as the
>> dependent variable and independent variables related to competition
>> like: # products in the therapeutic class at time of launch; #
>> generics in the therapeutic class at time t; market share of market
>> leader at time t; price of market leader at time t-1; etc.
>>
>> How can I deal with the fact that some products were only launched
>> half-way the data timeframe and some were discontinued after launch,
>> i.e. when price=="0" & quantity=="0" for all t before t launch and for
>> some after t launch. How can I have Stata including in the regression
>> only the data for which price and quantity is available? Simply drop
>> if price==0? Will it not treat it as missing if I do so?
>>
>> Another side question, how can I make Stata count the # products with
>> a particular characteristic (e.g. generic==1) marketed in each group
>> (subclass) of drugs in each quarter? And then assign to each product
>> the count corresponding to the quarter in which that product was
>> launched?
>
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