st: Re: Snowball sampling

["Joseph Coveney" <stajc2@gmail.com>]

Ray Hawkins wrote:

I am working with social network data, but it is too big, so I would like to
do snowball sampling. My data look like the following. Can you help me
figure out how to keep 'giveid' and corresponding 'recid' for a seed id? For
example, giveid=17 is a seed id. So, I would like to keep giveid=17 and all
giveid (=recid for giveid=17) = 6, 2, 5, 23, 1, 11, 4, 16, 33, 27, 16 (if
exist, of course). Then, for another seed id=32, for example, I would like
to repeat the same process to get certain data size. Thank you in advance.

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Not very efficient, but it should work and it has an easy-to-debug one-to-one
correspondence with the specifications:

* "keep giveid=17"
generate byte keep = giveid == 17

* "and all giveid (=recid for giveid=17)"
quietly levelsof recid if giveid == 17, local(keepers)
quietly foreach keeper of local keepers {
    replace keep = 1 if giveid == `keeper'
}

* "repeat the same process" "for another seed id=32"
quietly replace keep = 1 if giveid == 32
quietly levelsof recid if giveid == 32, local(keepers)
quietly foreach keeper of local keepers {
    replace keep = 1 if giveid == `keeper'
}

quietly keep if keep

Joseph Coveney

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