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Re: st: Count observations within timeframe
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Count observations within timeframe
Date
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:57:40 +0100
A similar question was asked and answered quite recently
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-03/msg01030.html
Nick
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Michael Hecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset with M&A transactions and I want to create a variable that
> holds the number of successfull transactions during the last 100 days.
> The relevant variables should be: announcement date, completion date and
> status (widthdrawn/completed/pending).
>
> One solution is to use two loops (one that runs over all transactions and
> one the goes from the current transaction backwards until it finds a
> transaction with completion date more than 100 days ago),
> but I suppose there must be a more efficient solution. Maybe something with
> egen and count
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