RustEmet1987readdata2022.ox

Read bus data from Rust (1987) to be read into niqlow.

This program

Reads the original ascii data files for bus types.
Discretizes the mileage for both N=90 and N=175
Creates data for the 3 columns of estimates from the original paper.
Identifies replacement months by either month or mileage. This is changed by hard-reset of the global constant runtype
Generates the innovation or jump \(j\) in \(x\)
Saves the data to a Stata data file to be read in by niqlow for MLE.

Input

The raw files which are vectorized versions of a 128x37 matrix, each column is a bus.
Each column has a header of 11 rows followed by odometer readings for each month.
The header contains up to two engine replacement months and years after the bus was brought into service.
This data is then used to convert the raw odometer readings into a combination of the model \((d,x)\) pair, consisting of the rebuild decision and odometer bin category.

The Output

3 Stata data files, one for each column of estimates, named for either mileage or month determination of replacements.
Discretization for both values of N appear in each file with suffixes 90 and 175 on the Stata variables.

Global variables, functions, enumerations

Variables
ext	const
files	const	files in order as they appear in Table 1.
groups	const	samples for columns of Tables IX and X based on group of file..
Mxjmps	const	J: # mileage jumps beyond 0.
mxmiles	const	max miles.
Nbins	const	Bin counts.
outdir	const
runtype	const	month method.
SVnames	const
Functions
main
Enumerations
Anonymous enum 1		Names for items in the header for each bus.
Anonymous enum 2		Names for columns of output file and Stata variable names.
Anonymous enum 3
Anonymous enum 4		Identify replacement month by r2m and r2y or r2mi.

Enumerations
Anonymous enum 1	Names for items in the header for each bus.	inid, r1m, r1y, r2m, r2y, r2mi, r3m, r3y, r3mi, fm, fy, Nheader
Anonymous enum 2	Names for columns of output file and Stata variable names.	myg, id, ss, tt, mm, ii, x90, df90, x175, df175, Ncols
Anonymous enum 3		group, fname, nmths, nbuses
Anonymous enum 4	Identify replacement month by r2m and r2y or r2mi. Rust (1987) uses the mileage reading at replacement in the raw file to determine which month the replacement occurred. Original replicated used the month of replacement in the raw file.	UseMonth, UseMileage, UseRust, Nruns

const decl ext

const decl files

files in order as they appear in Table 1.

const decl groups

samples for columns of Tables IX and X based on group of file..

main ( )

const decl Mxjmps

J: # mileage jumps beyond 0.

const decl mxmiles

max miles.

const decl Nbins

Bin counts.

const decl outdir

const decl runtype

month method.

const decl SVnames