Re: st: Loop year variable

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I gathered from your original posting that you had yearly data. I
understand that matches may be more frequent than yearly, but I can't
advise further without seeing what your data look like as the trade
data and match data are not obviously compatible.

Nick

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM, emanuele mazzini
<madsoenistata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr Cox,
>
> thank you for your reply. The point, however, is that I cannot declare
> my dataset to be time-series (how would like but I cannot) due to the
> fact that some matches may take place once, twice or even more times
> in the same year. That is why I was looking form a manual command. I
> may better handle this first? And how can I do that in your opinion?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> E.M.
>
> 2012/10/21 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>:
>> This should yield to a treatment in terms of spells in the sense of
>> -tsspell- (SSC) and of
>>
>> SJ-7-2  dm0029  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Identifying spells
>>         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
>>         Q2/07   SJ 7(2):249--265                                 (no commands)
>>         shows how to handle spells with complete control over
>>         spell specification
>>
>> Look at -tsspell- first; it is self-contained. That is, your panels
>> are defined by country pairs (dyads) and the start of a spell is
>> defined by a match taking place (or a particular result; I don't
>> follow exactly what you want, e.g what about draws?). Then a variable
>> defined by -tsspell- gives you sequence in spell. You may need to
>> subtract 1.
>>
>> I don't see that loops are needed.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:07 PM, emanuele mazzini
>> <madsoenistata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not a new Stata user, but I have to admit I still encounter some
>>> problems with writing loops. A loop may not be the solution to the
>>> issue I am going to describe, but I thought it is tough.
>>>
>>> I do have a dataset where I have country-pair trade observations for
>>> years 1950-2006 as well as another information, which is football
>>> match result for some dyads. I therefore need to generate a variable
>>> that indicates how many years are passed since the last won/lost of a
>>> country versus another. Suppose FT_A and FT_B are the final results
>>> for team A and B. I thought to generate a variable as follows:
>>>
>>> gen int date_won=year if FT_A>FT_B | FT_A<FT_B
>>>
>>> in order to get a variable that is = year for every observation I have
>>> information about, which reports the year of the won/loss. I then
>>> thought to generate another variable (let's say yrs_won) to tell me
>>> how many years have gone by as follows:
>>>
>>> gen int yrs_won=year-date_won
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I do not get what I want: the only value yrs_won
>>> assumes is 0, but for all years from 1983 until 2006 I would like it
>>> to be 1, 2,3 and so on.
>>>
>>> At the beginning I didn't realize the problem, now it may be occur due
>>> to the fact that date_won = year only for the year in which the match
>>> was played. I guess I need to do something such as writing a loop to
>>> let it spread over all cells of such variable, but I don't really know
>>> how to make it. Does anyone of you has any suggestion?
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