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st: RE: random sample


From   "Maarten Buis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: random sample
Date   Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:02:33 +0200

Marcella:
if you have enough memory to read the data into memory than you can do:

use bigfile.dta, clear
keep if uniform() < .1

HTH,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
Boelelaan 1081 
1081 HV Amsterdam 
The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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--- Marcella Sapun wrote:
 
I want to read randomly 10% of a data set that contains about 1 million
records and 100 variables. How do I do that in stata?


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