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Re: st: bysort, forvalues and _N
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Constantin Alba <[email protected]>
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Re: st: bysort, forvalues and _N
Date
Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:26:10 +0200
thanks Nick,
that is what i was looking for exactly. and the data actually was like
that (start/end date) originally. so i just used the trick on it. the
results are correct.
I did understand how this trick worked in the example after the link,
but in current example i am missing it. can you, please, explain the
use of "bysort obsno" here?
thanks
C.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wouldn't approach it like that. I don't think a loop is required,
> but rather a different data structure. Also, holding Duration may be
> interesting and useful, but it is just awkward for this problem.
>
> First save the dataset if not already -save-d. Then
>
> gen long obsno = _n
> gen endDate = startDate + Duration
> expand 2
> bysort obsno : gen Date = cond(_n == 1, startDate, endDate)
> bysort obsno : gen inOut = cond(_n == 1, 1, -1)
> bysort PersonID (Date) : gen noActivities = sum(inOut)
>
> Compare e.g. thread starting at
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2012-11/msg01163.html
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Constantin Alba
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a dataset organized by personID, for each personID there are
>> startDate and Duration for various activities.
>>
>> I want to find out how many activities a person performs at the same
>> time (e.g. something like workload)
>>
>> logically i see it like this:
>>
>> sort personID startDate Duration
>>
>> by personID: forvalues i=1/`=_N' {
>> "compare current date with all
>> other prior dates+duration
>> and update counter accordingly"
>> }
>>
>> however, by and forvalues do not work together, so i am trying to find
>> an alternative way to do so.
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