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Re: st: question on data analysis in Stata
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: question on data analysis in Stata
Date
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:25:33 +0100
I am surprised to infer that you think that this might be too
difficult for Stata. There are many ways to get at this: here is one.
If you calculate the change
bysort id (date) : gen change = var - var[_n-1]
Then you can summarize that by -id-
egen minch = min(change) , by(id)
Then you can tag each -id- once
egen tag = tag(id)
Now you can do things like
count if minch >0 & tag
count if minch >= 0 & tag
"continuous increase" might be held to allow occasional change of zero.
You can then get indicators, e.g.
gen increased = minch > 0
tab increased if tag
Nick
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have to analyze how the values of a given variable varies over a period of 100 days for 55 objects.
>
>
> I would like to investigate what fraction x out of these 55 objects saw a continuous increase in this variable over these 100 days.
>
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> Is it possible for Stata to deliver such answer?
> The data set looks as this: (the var values are random here;just for illustration)
>
>
> object id day value
> id date var
> 1 100 51
> 1 99 200
> 1 98 192
> 2 100 147
> 2 99 231
> 2 98 171
> 3 100 285
> 3 99 1
> 3 98 35
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