Re: st: computing preference choices

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

As with your last post, why not try -contract- first?

Nick

On 27 Dec 2011, at 08:16, Daniel Marcelino <dmsilv@gmail.com> wrote:
> I dealing with a puzzle that I need some help. I have a data set where
> I'd like to determine within "r" the most preferable choice (choice1
> to n) as in the replication above.
> So, there are three essential tasks: I need to tally the votes for
> every id (number), I need to see if the number id with most votes has
> at least 50%+ of all votes, and I need to discover who's the id the
> the least amount of votes.
> After performed these tasks in fly, I need to save the winner
> information (r and which round choice), I need to proceed dropping id
> got lesser votes in the first choice, but considering its second
> choice vote. Test again if there is any id with 50%+ of all votes.
> This procedure ends when any id gets 50%+ in each "r".
>
> Daniel
>
>
> clear
> input str2 r w byte(choice1 choice2 choice3)
>  "a" .5 1 2 3
>  "a" .1 2 3 4
>  "a" .9 3 2 5
>   "a" .9 3 4 2
>  "a" .2 4 5 1
>  "a" .3 5 1 3
>  "b" .4 1 4 3
>  "b" .1 2 3 4
>  "b" .6 3 2 5
> "b" .85 4 1 2
> "b" .85 4 5 1
> "b" .7 1 5 4
> "c" .4 2 1 3
> "c" .2 2 4 1
> "c" .7 3 4 5
> "c" .8 4 1 2
> "c" .8 4 5 1
> "c" .4 5 4 3
> "d" .4 . 1 3
> "d" .2 2 4 .
> "d" .7 . 5 .
> "d" .8 4 1 2
> "d" .8 4 5 1
> "d" .4 . . .
> end
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