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RE: st: new: collapse2


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: new: collapse2
Date   Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:24:22 +0100

I'd second Roger's warning but I'd usually 
want to check before the -collapse-. 
-duplicates- offers one way to approach this. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Roger Newson
> 
> "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).

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