SPELL: Stata module for identification of spells or runs of similar values

Nicholas Cox and Richard Goldstein ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: spell is a fairly general tool for dividing sequential data into spells, according to changes of a variable or some condition defining the start of a spell or defining whatever remains true during a spell. This is version 1.7.1 of the software.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 6
Keywords: time series; longitudinal data; panel data; spells; runs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-05-31, Revised 2000-11-22
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install spell". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/spell.hlp help file (text/plain)

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