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Re: st: roll rates
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Clive Nicholas <[email protected]>
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Re: st: roll rates
Date
Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:13:01 +0100
Austin Nichols replied to Nick Cox and Argyn Kuketayev:
[...]
> webuse nlswork
Nick and Argyn no doubt guessed this for themselves, but for anyone
else playing along
xtset idcode year
should be inserted here for the code to work
> g lmsp=l.msp
> la var lmsp "last month's state"
> note lmsp: not last month, but actually year(s)
> bys idcode (year): g flmsp=msp[_n-1]
> la var flmsp "last observation's state"
> xttrans msp
> ta flmsp msp, nofr row
> * note equivalence above--not period-to-period transitions:
> ta lmsp msp, nofr row
> svyset, srs
> svy:ta lmsp msp, row
> * usually transition matrix has cols sum to 1:
> svy:ta msp lmsp, col
> test _b[p12]=_b[p21]
> test _b[p11]=_b[p22]
> * the above tests equality of cell proportions...
> * to test equality of transition rates use se or ci options:
> svy:ta msp lmsp, col se
> test _b[p12]=_b[p21]
> test _b[p11]=_b[p22]
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