Re: st: Double loop over unbalanced panel

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I agree with Sylvain. Apart from a twist which does not make the Stata
code much more difficult, this looks like a standard problem discussed
in an FAQ

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Replacing missing values
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        2/03    How can I replace missing values with previous or
                following nonmissing values?
               http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/replacing-missing-values/

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:53 AM, WEBER Sylvain <sylvain.weber@unine.ch> wrote:

> I think you don't need any loop. - by - can be used instead.
> Try
> bysort id (t): replace chc=(chc[_n-1]*ph+cont)/p if mi(chc)
>
> Note that the - if mi(chc) - condition is very important. Otherwise, you would replace all values of chc; not only missing values.

Le 2 nov. 2012 à 14:00, "Fernando Luco" <flucoestatalist@gmail.com> a écrit :

>> The data and the formula look as follows
>>
>> input id t str1 ch p str1 chh ph cont con_c chc
>> 1 1 "a" 2 "" . 1 0.5 1 1
>> 1 2 "b" 3 "a" 4 3 1 .
>> 1 2 "b" 3 "a" 4 3 1 .
>> 1 3 "a" 1 "b" 2 2 2 .
>> 1 4 "c" 4 "a" 3 3 .75 .
>> 1 5 "d" 2 "c" 5 1 .5 .
>> 2 3 "d" 2 "" . 1 1 2
>> 2 4 "a" 3 "d" 3 3 1 .
>> 2 5 "b" 1 "a" 2 2 2 .
>> 2 6 "a" 2 "b" 2 1 .5 .
>> end
>>
>> foreach k of numlist 1/2{
>> foreach w of numlist 2/T_k{
>> replace chc=(chc[`w'-1]*ph+cont)/p if _n==`w' & id==`k'
>> }
>> }

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> I think the best advice depends on what -formula()- is, which you
>>> don't tell us.
>>>
>>> That said
>>>
>>> foreach of numlist ...
>>>
>>> in both your examples can be recast more simply as -forval- loops.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Fernando Luco <flucoestatalist@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> I have an unbalanced panel and I need to do a loop over individuals and
>>>> observations. My data looks as follows (I have other variables that are not
>>>> represented in this example)
>>>>
>>>> id t  chc
>>>> 1 1 .5
>>>> 1 2 .
>>>> 1 3 .
>>>> 1 4 .
>>>> 1 5 .
>>>> 2 3 1
>>>> 2 4 .
>>>> 2 5 .
>>>> 2 6 .
>>>>
>>>> What I want to do is, for each individual (id) to complete the values in
>>>> chc according to a formula that depends on other variables. However, the
>>>> number of times that each individual appears differs across individuals. I
>>>> would like to do something such as
>>>>
>>>> foreach k of numlist 1/2 { /*the 2 has to be changed to the total number of
>>>> individuals*/
>>>> foreach w of numlist 2/T_k { /* where T_k corresponds to the number of
>>>> times individual 2 appears*/
>>>> replace chc=formula(`w')
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how to define T_k in the correct way such that it varies
>>>> across individuals (so 5 for individual 1 and 4 for individual 2).

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