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Re: st: Data manipulation - time between value changes of a categorical variable
From
Robson Glasscock <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Data manipulation - time between value changes of a categorical variable
Date
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:31:21 -0400
Try this:
http://stata.com/statalist/archive/2002-08/msg00279.html
I'm also pretty sure I have seen some posts and/or FAQ info from Nick
Cox dealing with this same issue.
best,
Robson Glasscock
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Iulian Ihnatov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalister,
> In have a panel dataset of 200 countries/10 years, and the "regime" variable
> (categorical - 8 values).
> The questions are:
> 1. by country: calculate the lenght (years) of each regime before the
> switch;
> 2. tabulate (and, if possible, plot - 3D?) the frequency for each lenght and
> regime.
>
> The second task is reacheable with the tabulate, table or, better, tabout
> commands (not sure about the graph).
> Would you be so kind to give me some idea of how to solve the first task?
>
>
> Regards,
> Iulian Ihnatov
> -Stata 10-
>
>
>
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