Thank you again, but I think I need to do some homework about the split function, because I'm not understanding it very well. Besides, I think I still have a problem. I also need X2 = X1 winsorized: X2 is equal to X1 between 10%-90%, and is equal to the 10% value when < 10% and equal to the 90% value when it is >.
Could you help me?

Thank you
Cecília

Em Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:42:27 -0400
 jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> escreveu:
This is just following up with the example data you sent. This will create a list 'result' that will have the subset of data between the
10% & 90%-tiles of the data:

#My reproducible example:
firm<-sort(rep(1:1000,10),decreasing=F)
year<-rep(1998:2007,1000)
industry<-rep(c(rep(1,10),rep(2,10),rep(3,10),rep(4,10),rep(5,10),rep(6,10),rep(7,10),rep(8,10),rep(9,10),
+ rep(10,10)),1000)
X1<-rnorm(10000)
data<-data.frame(firm, industry,year,X1)
# split the data by industry/year
d.s <- split(data, list(data$industry, data$year), drop=TRUE)
result <- lapply(d.s, function(.id){
+    # get 10/90% values
+    .limit <- quantile(.id$X1, prob=c(.1, .9))
+    subset(.id, X1 >= .limit[1] & X1 <= .limit[2])
+ })
str(result)
List of 100
$ 1.1998 :'data.frame':        800 obs. of  4 variables:
..$ firm : int [1:800] 1 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91 111 ...
 ..$ industry: num [1:800] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
..$ year : int [1:800] 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998
1998 1998 ...
..$ X1 : num [1:800] 0.659 -0.105 -0.617 0.342 -1.077 ...
$ 2.1998 :'data.frame':        800 obs. of  4 variables:
..$ firm : int [1:800] 2 32 42 52 62 72 102 112 132 162 ...
 ..$ industry: num [1:800] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
..$ year : int [1:800] 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998
1998 1998 ...
..$ X1 : num [1:800] -1.1044 -0.0666 -0.9184 0.3469 -0.2348 ...

You can see that the 'name' of the list element is the industry.year
combination; this can also be seen in the data.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Cecilia Carmo <cecilia.ca...@ua.pt> wrote:
Thank you for your help but I don't understand how can I have a dataframe with the columns: firm, year, industry, X1 and X2. Could you help me
(again)?


Cecília Carmo


Em Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:10:38 -0400
 jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> escreveu:

This will split the data by industry & year and then return the values
that include the 80%-tile (>=10% & <= 90%)

# split the data by industry/year
d.s <- split(data, list(data$industry, data$year), drop=TRUE)
result <- lapply(d.s, function(.id){
  # get 10/90% values
  .limit <- quantile(.id$X1, prob=c(.1, .9))
  subset(.id, X1 >= .limit[1] & X1 <= .limit[2])
})

This returns a list of 100 elements for each combination.

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Cecilia Carmo <cecilia.ca...@ua.pt>
wrote:

Hi everyone!

#I need a loop or a function that creates a X2 variable that is X1
without
the extreme values (or X1 winsorized) by industry and year.

#My reproducible example:
firm<-sort(rep(1:1000,10),decreasing=F)
year<-rep(1998:2007,1000)

industry<-rep(c(rep(1,10),rep(2,10),rep(3,10),rep(4,10),rep(5,10),rep(6,10),rep(7,10),rep(8,10),rep(9,10),
rep(10,10)),1000)
X1<-rnorm(10000)
data<-data.frame(firm, industry,year,X1)
data

The way I’m doing this is very hard. I split my sample by industry and
year,
for each industry and year I calculate the 10% and 90% quantiles, then I
create a X2 variable like this:

industry1<-subset(data,data$industry==1)

ind1year1999<-subset(industry1,industry1$year==1999)
q1<-quantile(ind1year1999$X1,probs=0.1,na.rm=TRUE)
q99<-quantile(ind1year1999$X1,probs=0.90,na.rm=TRUE)

ind1year1999winsorized<-transform(ind1year1999,X2=ifelse(X1<q1,q1,ifelse(X1>q99,q99,X1)))

ind1year2000<-subset(industry1,industry1$year==2000)
q1<-quantile(ind1year2000$X1,probs=0.1,na.rm=TRUE)
q99<-quantile(ind1year2000$X1,probs=0.90,na.rm=TRUE)

ind1year2000winsorized<-transform(ind1year2000,X2=ifelse(X1<q1,q1,ifelse(X1>q99,q99,X1)))

I repeat this for all years and industries, and then I merge/bind all
again
to have a new dataframe with all the columns of the dataframe «data» plus
X2.

Could anyone help me doing this in a easier way?

Thanks
Cecília Carmo
Universidade de Aveiro - Portugal

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