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Re: st: any idea?


From   "Y.R.E. Retamal" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: any idea?
Date   Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:39:06 +0000

Dear Red Owl and Nick

Thank you very much for your response. The code works perfectly, just as I need.
Best wishes

Rodrigo


On 2013-12-14 22:31, Nick Cox wrote:
In addition to Red's helpful suggestions, note that technique for such
paired data was discussed in

http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0043

which is publicly accessible. The problem is that the identifiers in
Rodrigo's example appear to make little sense. How is Stata expected
to know that 1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6 are paired? Perhaps the
structure of the dataset is clearer in practice. If so, basic
calculations are just a couple of lines or so.

Nick
[email protected]


On 14 December 2013 15:33, Red Owl <[email protected]> wrote:
Rodrigo,

The following code demonstrates an approach with basic loops.
It could be made more efficient with a different loop
structure, but this approach may be more informative.

*** BEGIN CODE ***
* Build demo data set.
clear
* Length is capitalized to distinguish from length().
input id str5(side) Length
1 right 10
2 right 15
3 right 11
4 left  13
5 left  10
6 left  12
end

gen byte newvar1 = .
forval i = 1/3 {
  replace newvar1 = Length[`i'] - Length[4] in `i'
  }
forval i = 4/6 {
  replace newvar1 = Length[`i'] - Length[1] in `i'
  }

gen byte newvar2 = .
forval i = 1/3 {
  replace newvar2 = Length[`i'] - Length[5] in `i'
  }
forval i = 4/6 {
  replace newvar2 = Length[`i'] - Length[2] in `i'
  }

gen byte newvar3 = .
forval i = 1/3 {
  replace newvar3 = Length[`i'] - Length[6] in `i'
  }
forval i = 4/6 {
  replace newvar3 = Length[`i'] - Length[3] in `i'
  }

list, noobs sep(0)
*** END CODE ***

Good luck.

Red Owl
[email protected]


Y.R.E. Retamal" <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:08:42:

Dear list

I am very complicated trying to perform an analysis using STATA and I
cannot find the way. Maybe you could help me. I want to create some new
variables containing the difference between the length of two
individuals from different groups:


id     side     length      newvar1       newvar2      newvar3
1      right      x           x-j           x-k          x-l
2      right      y           y-j           y-k          y-l
3      right      z           z-j           z-k          z-l
4      left       j           j-x           j-y          j-z
5      left       k           k-x           k-y          k-z
6      left       l           l-x           l-y          l-z


I do not know if I do explain myself clearly, the individuals are
bones (clavicles, for example), so it is possible that some right
clavicles pair-match with left clavicles, following the idea that an
individual has bone of similar length.

Any help could bring me a light!
Best wishes

Rodrigo
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