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Re: st: Using postfile to save single observations from a dataset


From   Nick Baker <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Using postfile to save single observations from a dataset
Date   28 Mar 2013 16:08:17 +0000

Yes Maarten that works perfectly.
Thank you very much Maarten and Nick for your replies.

Kind Regards,
Nick Baker



On Mar 28 2013, Maarten Buis wrote:

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Nick Baker wrote:
I currently have a time series dataset where the variables are the returns of several hundred mutual funds:

        Date    retfund1        retfund2
1       2006m1  -12.38985       10.39785
2       2006m2  -8.219995       9.54027
3       2006m3  5.497518        -5.947091
4       2006m4  -0.9465399      -2.846269
5       2006m5  2.219898        -12.51931
6       2006m6  0.4326888       -2.443768

What I want to do is to get these data into a long form with information on lagged returns:

FundID  Date    ret(t-1)        ret(t-2)
1       2006m1  .       .
1       2006m2  -12.38985       .
1       2006m3  -8.219995       -12.38985
1       2006m4  5.497518        -8.219995
1       2006m5  -0.9465399      5.497518
1       2006m6  2.219898        -0.9465399
2       2006m1  .       .
2       2006m2  10.39785        .
2       2006m3  9.54027 10.39785
2       2006m4  -5.947091       9.54027
2       2006m5  -2.846269       -5.947091
2       2006m6  -12.51931       -2.846269


Currently, for each fund I am generating variables of lagged returns and am then attempting to save each observation to a seperate dataset using postfile within a forvalues loop over the date range.

That seems inefficient. What about this:

*------------------ begin example ------------------
// create some example data
clear all
input  date   retfund1       retfund2
      552   -12.38985       10.39785
      553    -8.219995       9.54027
      554     5.497518      -5.947091
      555    -0.9465399     -2.846269
      556     2.219898     -12.51931
      557     0.4326888     -2.443768
end
format date %tm

// reshape
reshape long retfund, i(date) j(fund)

// declare as time series data (within fund)
tsset fund date

// create the lagged variables
gen ret1 = L1.retfund
gen ret2 = L2.retfund

// look at the results
list, sepby(fund)
*------------------- end example -------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
WZB
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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