st: From: "Owens, Douglas Hamilton" <dho@neo.tamu.edu>

[owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]

I think you are drawing y2a values from observations that match on y1, of
which there are none.  Leave off the by() option.

see -help hotdeck-

Doug


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