Juan Manuel,
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> Juan Manuel Jauregui
> Sent: 24 April 2006 03:32
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> Subject: st: stset with multiple spells
>
> My fellow Stata lovers,
>
> I'm trying to stset my dataset, and I'm having trouble. I
> already read the [st] manual, the great book by Cleves et al
> (2004) and also his excelent review of this issue at the FAQ
> (reproducing the STB-49) and even a search of the Statalist
> history and other websites wasn't fruitful.
>
> Here is my problem:
>
> I have an unbalanced panel of almost 200 individuals
> (countries in this case) with 100 records each (25 years of
> quarterly data) and I want to study the duration of some
> periods of financial distress. I have an event that marks the
> begining of each crisis, and another event that marks its
> end. This crises periods appear more than once for each
> country and they are separated from each other by periods of
> tranquility, that is, analysis time should begin from 0 when
> a new crisis begins.
I rarely work with duration data, so this is possibly a silly question,
but -help stset- has a heading near the top that reads
"Multiple-record-per-subject survival data"
and later in the help file, explains how to handle it.
How is this different from what you want to do?
Cheers,
Mark
> The closest thing I think I can do is to take each episode as
> an individual and take countries as groups and use a shared
> frialty model, but that wouldn't be exactly what I want to
> do. I'd prefer to take it as repeated episodes of the same individual.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Juan Manuel Jauregui
> Doctoral Student
> Global Economics and Management
> UCLA Anderson School of Management
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