I don't know what your stata command should reproduce, but to answer the second part of question about
hierarchical structure , it is easy to do this with list
.
For example, you define a structure like this:
tree = list(
"var1" = list(
"panel" = list(type ='p',mean = 1,sd=0)
,"cluster" = list(type = 'c',value = c(5,8,10)))
,"var2" = list(
"panel" = list(type ='p',mean = 2,sd=0.5)
,"cluster" = list(type="c",value =c(1,2)))
)
To create this lapply
is convinent to work with list
tree <- lapply(list('var1','var2'),function(x){
ll <- list(panel= list(type ='p',mean = rnorm(1),sd=0), ## I use symbol here not name
cluster= list(type = 'c',value = rnorm(3))) ## R prefer symbols
})
names(tree) <-c('var1','var2')
You can view he structure with str
str(tree)
List of 2
$ var1:List of 2
..$ panel :List of 3
.. ..$ type: chr "p"
.. ..$ mean: num 0.284
.. ..$ sd : num 0
..$ cluster:List of 2
.. ..$ type : chr "c"
.. ..$ value: num [1:3] 0.0722 -0.9413 0.6649
$ var2:List of 2
..$ panel :List of 3
.. ..$ type: chr "p"
.. ..$ mean: num -0.144
.. ..$ sd : num 0
..$ cluster:List of 2
.. ..$ type : chr "c"
.. ..$ value: num [1:3] -0.595 -1.795 -0.439
Edit after OP clarification
I think that package reshape2
is what you want. I will demonstrate this here.
The idea here is in order to do the multilevel analysis we need to reshape the data.
First to divide the variables into two groups :identifier and measured variables. library(reshape2) dat.m <- melt(dat,id.vars=c('son_id','mom_id')) ## other columns are measured
str(dat.m)
'data.frame': 21 obs. of 4 variables:
$ son_id : Factor w/ 3 levels "1","2","3": 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 ...
$ mom_id : Factor w/ 3 levels "1","2","3": 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 ...
$ variable: Factor w/ 3 levels "hispanic","mom_smoke",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 ...
$ value : num 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ..
Once your have data in "moten" form , you can "cast" to rearrange it in the shape that you want:
# mom1 means for all variable
acast(dat.m,variable~mom_id,mean)
1 2 3
hispanic 1.0000000 0 0.0
mom_smoke 0.3333333 1 0.5
son_birthweigth 3943.3333333 4160 2977.5
# Within-mother variance for birthweigth
acast(dat.m,variable~mom_id,function(x) sum((x-mean(x))^2))
1 2 3
hispanic 0.0000000 0 0.0
mom_smoke 0.6666667 0 0.5
son_birthweigth 5066.6666667 3200 12.5
## overall mean of each variable
acast(dat.m,variable~.,mean)
[,1]
hispanic 0.4285714
mom_smoke 0.5714286
son_birthweigth 3729.2857143