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Re: st: new: collapse2


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: new: collapse2
Date   Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:50:14 +0100

At 16:19 04/08/2004, Dan Blanchette wrote:
How about adding an option to save id variables during the -collapse-?
It would be great if you could do this:

. collapse2 (sum) grams kcal fat , by(personid) id(age gender sampwt stratum psu)

because age, gender etc do not vary within a person's set of observations.

I've been cheating -collapse- to get the same result by doing:

. collapse (sum) grams kcal fat , by(age gender sampwt stratum psu personid)
"Cheating" is probably the way to go, rather than adding a superfluous id() option. However, I would have typed:

. collapse (sum) grams kcal fat, by(personid age gender samput stratum psu)
. by personid: assert _N==1

That way, I would know that age, gender, samput, stratum and psu really are id variables for personid (because otherwise Stata would complain and stop).

Roger


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