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Re: st: How to assign cumulated frequencies to observations
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to assign cumulated frequencies to observations
Date
Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:46:47 +0100
See detailed suggestions in
SJ-7-3 pr0033 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stata tip 51: Events in intervals
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/07 SJ 7(3):440--443 (no commands)
tip for counting or summarizing irregularly spaced
events in intervals
Nick
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Timm Fulge <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have appended two datasets. One consists of survey data and the other one
> has information on stories published by a cable news channel. They have in
> common the variables DATE (expressed as, for instance 20080101) and,
> correspondingly, day (a numeric expression of DATE starting with 1 for
> January 1st). For the survey data, these variables denote the date of the
> interview. For the media data, they denote the date a given story was aired.
>
> What I would like to do is to assign each observation of the survey dataset
> the cumulated frequency of the media output of the 2 weeks prior to the
> interview date. For instance, if an interview was conducted on day 23, I
> would like to create a new variable stating how many stories were aired
> about a given issue (e.g. unemployment) on days 8 through 22.
>
> I have read around quiet a bit and I imagine the solution will have
> something to do with running loops, but unfortunately I am too much of a
> Stata novice to figure this out by myself. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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