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st: RE: RE: i-1 in forvalues loop
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: RE: RE: i-1 in forvalues loop
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Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:59:35 +0100
Sorry, Viktor, you're hoping for more than I can promise. I promise only to comment on what Stata problems you raise that I can understand.
I've not tested your code -- manifestly I don't have your data -- but I see no reason why your code shouldn't run with my correction.
Did you try that?
I don't see any adding of intervals in your code.
Nick
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Viktor Emonds
Let me try to explain again: I have a file with schools and I know the number of students in the target population. I have everything neatly sorted and for sampling, I just need to give each school a chance poportional to the number of students in the target year in that school on getting selected, determinate a random starting point to make my first pick and add a constant interval.
In the loop with bal, I basically try to draw the 'winning numbers' by taking the constant (bal1) and adding the interval (3166.467), storing the new constant in bal2, bal3 ....bal15. The way I envisioned doing this was by running a loop for bal2-bal15, adding the interval to the value of the previous bal (the i-1th bal). Is there a way to do so?
Best,
Viktor
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I don't understand what you are trying to do. I comment only on obvious Stata problems.
`i-1' would only work if "i-1" were the name of a local macro, but it can't be such a name, as minus signs are not allowed in Stata names.
gen bal`i' = bal`=`i'-1' * 3166.467
would at first sight work as then Stata knows to evaluate the expression
`i' - 1
on the fly.
Your code largely consists of putting constants into variables, which is legal but not especially good style.
Note that
gen lotto=sum(studentsj3) //sum of target population
produces a _cumulative_ sum: only in the last observation will this be the actual sum, as your comment implies. Whether the comment or the code is what you want only you can say.
Nick
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Van: Viktor Emonds
Verzonden: dinsdag 18 oktober 2011 15:55
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: i-1 in forvalues loop
Hey,
I am trying to draw a sample with random start, fixed interval systematic sampling procedure in each explicit stratum. The data in each stratum are already sorted by all the implicit stratifiers with serpentine sorting for a variable of particular interest. Now I just need to do the actual sampling and tried to start by doing the following:
use ethnicframe31 //the specific explicit stratum
gen lotto=sum(studentsj3) //sum of target population
egen bal1= mean(3166.4667*runiform()) //random starting point
forvalues i=2/15 { //Draw ' lotto balls' by adding the fixed interval
gen bal`i'= bal`i-1'*3166.4667
}
gen winnaar=0 //Identify ' winning' schools
forvalues i=1/15{
replace winnaar=1 if inrange(bal`i',lotto[_n-1],lotto)
}
Apparently, the `i-1' in the first loop is not understood. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance!
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