Ricardo,
I can't give advice about how Mata can be used for this problem, but it
looks as though you do not need that machinery and should be able to do
this without looping over observations. What about (some variation of)
this:
gen notfather = (relation!="f")
bysort familyid (notfather): gen fatherid = subjid[1] if notfather[1]==0
replace fatherid = . if relation!="c"
gen notmother = (relation!="m")
bysort familyid (notmother): gen motherid = subjid[1] if notmother[1]==0
replace motherid = . if relation!="c"
drop notmother notfather
sort familyid subjid
Hope this helps
Philippe
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IRISS - Integrated Research Infrastructure in
the Socio-Economic Sciences
CEPS/INSTEAD
BP48, L-4501 Differdange, Luxembourg
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>st: looping over observations -mata-?
>From Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
>To [email protected]
>Subject st: looping over observations -mata-?
>Date Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:49:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Dear all,
>
>I have household data with one observation per family
>member. All House hold have one or both parents and
>anywhere from 1 to seven children. All households have
>children but no grandparents or other relatives. Here
>are a few tipical observations and relevant variables:
>
>. cl familyid subjid relation
>
> familyid subjid relation
> 1. 1001 1 f
> 2. 1001 2 m
> 3. 1001 3 c
> 4. 1001 4 c
> 5. 1002 1 m
> 6. 1002 2 c
> 7. 1002 3 c
> 8. 1003 1 m
> 9. 1003 2 f
> 10. 1003 3 c
>
>where for -relation-: f=father, m=mother and c=child
>
>I want to create two new variables which hold, for the
>children, their parent's -subjectid- as follows:
>
> familyid subjid relation fatherid motherid
> 1. 1001 1 f . .
> 2. 1001 2 m . .
> 3. 1001 3 c 1 2
> 4. 1001 4 c 1 2
> 5. 1002 1 m . .
> 6. 1002 2 c . 2
> 7. 1002 3 c . 2
> 8. 1003 1 m . .
> 9. 1003 2 f . .
> 10. 1003 3 c 2 1
>
>I wrote a program to do this but is very slow because
>it loops over observations.
>I think that if I recode this using -mata- it would be
>faster, but I not sure where to begin. Any assistance
>or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Ricardo
>
>
>Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
>Statistician
>Oklahoma City, OK
>
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