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Re: st: Transition matrices and probabilities.
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Transition matrices and probabilities.
Date
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:16:26 -0400
Nick and
Andreas Dall Frøseth--
I would put instead
3. -svyset- to enable testing after:
4. -svy:tab- to get column proportions for a standard transition matrix
See also
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-04/msg01110.html
There are a variety of other considerations, left for a possible
future SJ paper (?)...
but I recommend http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914306 to start thinking
about mobility.
I have not seen the cited paper, but
"four categories, based on growth and profits (above or below industry
average),"
sounds like a harebrained way to model firm growth.
Where is the q theory? Where is debt and equity finance? What are the
effects of foreign investment? Taxes?
Start with
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/1981%201/1981a_bpea_summers_bosworth_tobin_white.PDF
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Search the archives for "transition probabilities". Austin Nichols has
> often shown on this list that you just need
>
> 1. A categorical variable showing system state.
>
> 2. -tsset-, so that lagged variables can be defined.
>
> 3. -tabulate-.
>
> Here is a dopey example.
>
> . webuse grunfeld, clear
>
> . su invest , detail
>
> invest
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Percentiles Smallest
> 1% 1.27 .93
> 5% 2.215 1.18
> 10% 9.73 1.36 Obs 200
> 25% 33.405 1.81 Sum of Wgt. 200
>
> 50% 57.485 Mean 145.9583
> Largest Std. Dev. 216.8753
> 75% 140.36 755.9
> 90% 460.25 891.2 Variance 47034.89
> 95% 565.05 1304.4 Skewness 2.895513
> 99% 1097.8 1486.7 Kurtosis 13.90504
>
> . gen which = invest > r(p50)
>
> . tsset company year
> panel variable: company (strongly balanced)
> time variable: year, 1935 to 1954
> delta: 1 year
>
> . gen previous = L.which
> (10 missing values generated)
>
> . tab which previous
>
> | previous
> which | 0 1 | Total
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> 0 | 81 11 | 92
> 1 | 17 81 | 98
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> Total | 98 92 | 190
>
>
> . tab which previous, col
>
> +-------------------+
> | Key |
> |-------------------|
> | frequency |
> | column percentage |
> +-------------------+
>
> | previous
> which | 0 1 | Total
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> 0 | 81 11 | 92
> | 82.65 11.96 | 48.42
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> 1 | 17 81 | 98
> | 17.35 88.04 | 51.58
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> Total | 98 92 | 190
> | 100.00 100.00 | 100.00
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 23 April 2013 14:19, Andreas Dall Frøseth
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear listers.
>>
>> I am currently experiencing some difficulties regarding the analysis in my research paper. I'm trying to replicate the method used in Davidsson, P., Steffens, P. & Fitzsimmons, J. (2009) "Growing profitable or growing from profits: putting the horse in front of the cart?" Journal of Business Venturing, 24(4).. 388-406. This study analysis the relationship between growth and profits, trying to find what determines the best basis for future profitable growth within their sample of swedish and australian firms. They define four categories, based on growth and profits (above or below industry average), and use state transition probabilities as a starting point of their analysis. Further they use standard z-tests to test the differences between the transition proportions. I'm sorry if this explanation is unclear, but hopefully you'll have access to the paper, for further explanations.
>>
>> My question on this matter is; is there a way to do this in Stata? I.e. a command allowing me to calculate the transition probabilities on 1 year transitions, as well as 3 or 5 year transitions. I'm working with a large set of (unbalanced) panel data, containing a large number of companies, identified with a company ID. The time variable is "year", being data from 1999 - 2010, but with gaps. At this point, I have calculated the needed variables, but have yet to place the companies in their respective categories, due to uncertainties on another point (a post I made to the list earlier).
>> If there is no good way to implement this in STATA, I would appreciated it if anyone have suggestions on software that can perform such analysis.
>>
>> All feedback will be appreciated.
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