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Re: st: generate Spell Counter or Duration Variable
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: generate Spell Counter or Duration Variable
Date
Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:18:22 +0000
Somebody else may understand this, but I don't think this is complete.
What's -d-, for example?
Nick
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:52 PM, David Ashcraft <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
>
> I wanted to generate a duration variable to determine, how long a firm remained in a specific state. the dataset is panel where T>N. The change in state of the firm is explained by a dummy variable. The duration variable as shown below capture duration of each spell. I thought of using -xi i.d- but it generate the same variable as -d-.
>
> iddate2dDuration
> 11658711
> 11661712
> 11664613
> 11667900
> 11670911
> 11674000
> 11677011
> 11680000
> 11683211
> 11686000
> 11689111
>
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