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Re: st: Data Management Loop
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Data Management Loop
Date
Sat, 2 Apr 2011 06:55:58 +0100
As in, for example,
bysort type : su x
separate x, by(type) veryshortlabel
su x?
qqplot x?
?
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Toby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply!
>
> Doing this, I think (!) I can compare the the x value of type 1 with
> every other x value of type 2. This will give me a hint about how
> often a certain value x of type 1 is higher/lower/ or equal compared
> to all other values in the sample. Vice versa for type 2. Due to my
> limited programming capabilities I thought this would be an easy way.
> Do you think there is a better way? (Certaintly there is. =) )
>
> Toby.
>
>
> 2011/4/1 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
>> I think the main question is not how to get this, but how and why do
>> you imagine it will help you?
>> For each type, the information is already accessible. Why repeat it?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Toby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello Statalist,
>>>
>>> i have a problem with the following data structure:
>>>
>>> id type x
>>> 1 1 1
>>> 2 2 2
>>> 3 1 3
>>> 4 2 4
>>> 5 1 5
>>> 6 2 6
>>>
>>> Now I want to generate additional variables that include the x value
>>> for the opposite type, so that the data looks like this:
>>>
>>> id type x x_2 x_4 x_6 x_1 x_3 x_5
>>> 1 1 1 2 4 6
>>> 2 2 2 . . . 1 3 5
>>> 3 1 3 2 4 6
>>> 4 2 4 . . . 1 3 5
>>> 5 1 5 2 4 6
>>> 6 2 6 . . . 1 3 5
>>>
>>> Until know I only have created a loop that generates this additional
>>> variables, but I did not figured out how to disriminate between the
>>> two type. Can anyone hive me a hint?
>>>
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