Re: st: RE: RE: RE: AW: Creating index relative to other observations

[Robert Picard <picard@netbox.com>]

Perhaps the following example is close to what you are trying to do.
It loops through all observations. Each time, it calculates the
distance from observation `i' to all others (distance will be missing
for the observation `i'). Values for variable x1 are adjusted
according to the distance to `i' and summed. The observation `i' of x3
is then updated with the value of the sum plus the value of x2 for
observation `i'.

Hope this helps,

Robert
http://robertpicard.com/

*--------------------------- begin example -----------------------
version 11

* This example require my -geodist- program available on SSC
* To install: ssc install geodist

clear all
set obs 5
set seed 1234
gen lat = 37 + (41 - 37) * uniform()
gen lon = -109 + (109 - 102) * uniform()
gen x1 = round(uniform()*100)
gen x2 = round(uniform()*100)
gen x3 = .

forvalues i = 1/`c(N)' {
	geodist lat lon `=lat[`i']' `=lon[`i']' if _n != `i', gen(d)
	gen xtemp = x1 / d
	sum xtemp, meanonly
	qui replace x3 = r(sum) + x2 in `i'
	list
	drop d xtemp
}
*--------------------- end example --------------------------


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Frederick Guy <f.guy@bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> Many thanks. Now for a crash-course in MATA...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 29 April 2010 19:22
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: RE: AW: Creating index relative to other observations
>
> I'd do this in Mata. Mata has a -for- loop.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Frederick Guy
>
> Thanks, I guess I was unclear on this aspect of the problem. For each
> observation, the sum I'm talking about is of measurements made relative
> to all other observations (or more generally, to some set of other
> observations) in the sample.
>
> Martin Weiss
>
> ".. sum up the results of these computations,".
>
> Creating sums can mean different things in Stata. It may sound trite,
> but
> the easiest is simply to -generate- a sum by adding values with a "+"
> sign.
> If you want the total of a variable, look at -egen, total()-. If you
> want a
> running sum, take a look at -help sum()-.
>
> Frederick Guy
>
> I have need to use information from all observations (about 1800 of
> them) to create a new variable.
>
> The variable created is a weighted sum of the inverse of geographical
> distances between observation i and all j n.e. i. I have longitude and
> latitude for each observation, and computation of the distance from any
> i to any j is straightforward. What I don't know is how to get Stata to
> loop over all observation and sum up the results.
>
> For every observation i, I think I need to
>
> (a) loop through all j n.e. I, doing computations involving variables
> x1, x2(i) and x1, x2(j), and then
>
> (b) sum up the results of these computations, returning a value which
> becomes variable x3 for that i.
>
> I expect there's a straightforward way to do this. Any suggestions?
>
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