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Re: st: Data manipulation - time between value changes of a categorical variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Data manipulation - time between value changes of a categorical variable
Date
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:38:43 +0100
I'm pretty sure too and agree with Robson. This sounds like a problem
for -tsspell- (SSC).
Nick
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Robson Glasscock <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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