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Re: st: add observations
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: add observations
Date
Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:01:19 +0100
By missing you appear to mean "omitted from the data"; that is not
what Stata documentation means by "missing". Missing means present in
the data but with a missing value.
Nick
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Nick,
> This works perfectly for the one unit, however, I have many units and, the missing pd varies from unit to unit. Suggestions on how your solution can be modified to handle this?
>
> My early thinking (and block) was thinking I needed to used -fillin- (and may be levels) however, after sending the email to the list it occurred to me that splitting and then appending the data may do the job. Here is what I have tried.
>
> clear
> input ///
> str8 hcod pd pdt
> 2081115 1 12
> 2081115 3 21
> 2081115 3 11
> 2081115 4 13
> 3031028 1 45
> 3031028 2 21
> 3031028 2 11
> 3031028 3 42
> 3031028 3 13
> 3031028 3 12
> 3061037 2 12
> 3061037 3 45
> 3061096 1 42
> 3061096 1 21
> 3061096 4 45
> 3061096 4 12
> 3061196 1 42
> 3061196 1 45
> 3061196 4 12
> 3061306 1 21
> 3061306 1 45
> 3061306 4 42
> 3061306 4 12
> 3062277 1 41
> 3062277 4 12
>
>
> end
>
> tempfile master
> save `master'
>
> fillin hcod pd
> bysort hcod (pdt): replace pd = pd[_N]
> drop if mi(pdt)
> append using `master'
> sort hcode pd
> list, clean noobs
>
> Ronnie
> --
> 010100100110111101101110011011100110100101100101
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 6, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>
>> local N = _N + 1
>> expand 2
>> replace pd =4 in `N'/L
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Ronnie Babigumira <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
>> > Dear listers,
>> >
>> > I have a dataset that looks like this
>> > hcod pd pdt
>> > 3092285 1 31
>> > 3092285 1 43
>> > 3092285 2 11
>> > 3092285 2 21
>> > 3092285 2 41
>> > 3092285 2 45
>> > 3092285 3 42
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I would like to add new observations so that I end up with
>> > hcod pd pdt
>> > 3092285 1 31
>> > 3092285 1 43
>> > 3092285 2 11
>> > 3092285 2 21
>> > 3092285 2 41
>> > 3092285 2 45
>> > 3092285 3 42
>> > 3092285 4 31
>> > 3092285 4 43
>> > 3092285 4 11
>> > 3092285 4 21
>> > 3092285 4 41
>> > 3092285 4 45
>> >
>> > 3092285 4 42
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Basically, each unit (hcod) should have 4 periods (pd). What we would like to do is add all products (pdt) present in the non-missing periods to the missing period.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions to get us started would be very welcome.
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