Re: st: Assistance with manipulating a social network dataset?

[Brandon Olszewski <olszewski.brandon@gmail.com>]

Yes! That's what I needed! The
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/dyad_ids.htm page sorted it all
out for me - very well written with a clear example.

Thank you, Nick.

Brandon

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your last question is addressed in
>
> SJ-8-4  dm0043  . Tip 71: The problem of split identity, or how to group dyads
>        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>        Q4/08   SJ 8(4):588--591                                 (no commands)
>        tip on how to handle dyadic identifiers
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Brandon Olszewski
> <olszewski.brandon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a social network dataset, and I can’t figure out how to perform
>> the proper manipulations. People in rows were asked if they know
>> people listed in columns. In cells, “0” indicates two people don’t
>> know each other, and “1” indicates otherwise. So what I have looks
>> like this:
>>             Adam Beth  Charlie
>> Adam    1       1       0
>> Beth            0       1       0
>> Charlie 0       1       1
>>
>> Note that while Adam claims to know Beth, Beth doesn’t claim the same,
>> and while Beth says she doesn’t know Charlie, he says otherwise. For
>> my purposes, I want to assume that if anyone says they know someone
>> else, to treat it as a “1” both ways.
>>
>> The software I want to use (Sonoma) wants the data in one of two
>> formats. Here’s the wide option, which offers only one half the
>> matrix, with “1” coded in the diagonal and “.” coded in the bottom
>> half, with max values for combinations in cells:
>>            Adam        Beth    Charlie
>> Adam    1       1       0
>> Beth           .        1       1
>> Charlie .       .       1
>>
>> Question 1: How would I do this in Stata? I looked at -help mata-, but
>> I don’t even know if that’s the right direction. Is it? If not, how
>> might I do it? This option seems more difficult for me (given my
>> familiarity with Stata’s functionality) than the “long option” below.
>>
>> Here’s the long option, which seems more feasible for me, given my
>> level of skill. Note that each combination is listed just once, again
>> with maximum values:
>> Adam    Adam    1
>> Adam    Beth            1
>> Adam    Charlie 0
>> Beth            Beth            1
>> Beth            Charlie 1
>> Charlie Charlie 1
>>
>> Question 2: I can get the data to long format fine no problem. But end
>> up with duplicates of combinations, as Adam is asked about Ben, and
>> Ben is asked about Adam (i.e. a total of 9 observations, rather than
>> the six above). How could I drop duplicate combinations, saving only
>> the max value for each? While I am pretty familiar with the
>> -duplicates- set of commands, I’m running into the problem that I
>> don’t know how to use the command since combinations go both ways,
>> where Adam-Beth is a duplicate of Beth-Adam. I’ve also thought about
>> it substituting numbers for people (i.e. 1-2 & 2-1), but that doesn’t
>> change my problem that I can’t figure out how to tell Stata to treat
>> those as duplicates.
>>
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