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Re: st: Duration data- count number of spells with ref to current spell
From
Sriram Narayanamoorthy <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Duration data- count number of spells with ref to current spell
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:21:29 -0700
Thanks much - Nick, Robert - for the solution!
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Roberto Ferrer <[email protected]> wrote:
> My browser didn't update appropriately. Last post got in late.
>
> Bests,
> Roberto
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Roberto Ferrer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Nick's is better, of course:
>>
>> *----------------------- input --------------------------------
>> clear
>> input person eventStart str20 eventType
>> 1 10 work
>> 1 14 lunch
>> 1 15 work
>> 1 16 work
>> 1 33 shopping
>> 1 34 shopping
>> end
>>
>> *----------- what you want ----------------------------
>>
>> gen dum = 1 if eventType == "work"
>> gen cumact = sum(dum)
>> gen before = cumact[_n-1]
>> gen after = cumact[_N] - cumact
>> replace before = 0 if _n == 1
>>
>> list
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Roberto Ferrer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This works with your example. Add -by- when generalizing to multiple
>>> person case.
>>>
>>> * ------------------------------ input---------------------------------
>>>
>>> clear
>>> input person eventStart str20 eventType
>>> 1 10 work
>>> 1 14 lunch
>>> 1 15 work
>>> 1 16 work
>>> 1 33 shopping
>>> 1 34 shopping
>>> end
>>>
>>> *-------------------- what you want---------------------------------
>>>
>>> gen dum =1 if eventType == "work"
>>> gen before = sum(dum) -1
>>> replace before = before + 1 if dum == .
>>>
>>> egen tot = max(before)
>>> gen after = tot - before - 1
>>> replace after = after + 1 if dum == .
>>>
>>> *---------------------clean up-----------------------------
>>> drop dum tot
>>> list
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Sriram Narayanamoorthy
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Nick,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response. Though, I am not quite sure I understand the
>>>> solution. Is the variable "activity" in your toy dataset is the
>>>> eventType I referred to in my question or is it something else. I
>>>> think your approach would give me the net time spend in other
>>>> activities before current activity (or time remaining to spend). What
>>>> I want to do is count the number of activity of a particular type.
>>>>
>>>> I have provided an example below:
>>>>
>>>> person eventStart eventType
>>>> 1 10 work
>>>> 1 14 lunch
>>>> 1 15 work
>>>> 1 16 work
>>>> 1 33 shopping
>>>> 1 34 shopping
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The dataset is sorted in person and eventStart. Say, I want to count
>>>> the number of "work" events before and after the current event - based
>>>> on the eventStart variable. This would be my output. For, example for
>>>> the lunch tour, I have 1 work tours before time period 14 and 2 work
>>>> tours after time period 14.
>>>>
>>>> person eventStart eventType numWorkBefore
>>>> numWorkAfter
>>>> 1 10 work 0
>>>> 2
>>>> 1 14 lunch 1
>>>> 2
>>>> 1 15 work 1
>>>> 1
>>>> 1 16 work 2
>>>> 0
>>>> 1 33 shopping 3
>>>> 0
>>>> 1 34 shopping 3
>>>> 0
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I am misunderstanding your solution.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -Sriram
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Sriram Narayanamoorthy
Graduate Research Assistant
email: [email protected]
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
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