Serguei Kaniovski wrote:
> I am new to STATA and have the following problem. I would like to
> compute the frequencies of occurrence (and counts) of all possible
> voting arrangements between voters "voter_id" in a voting body
> "body_id". The vote is a binary variable indicating the yes and no
> votes. Given each voter's "vote", there would be nC2-1 such
> arrangements.
Serguei:
I am pretty new to STATA too (but not to Stata, see
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#spell)
This can be solved with the -table- command with the replace option,
see -whelp table- and example below.
HTH,
Maarten
*-----------------begin example--------------------
input body_id voter_id vote
1 1 1
1 2 0
1 3 1
1 7 1
1 9 0
2 1 1
2 2 0
2 7 0
end
table voter_id, c(N vote) by(body_id) replace
*-----------------end example---------------
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