Re: st: Re: data management - loop?

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 04:53 PM 5/22/2007, Nick Cox wrote:
> [...]
>
> I don't think there is any obvious way to handle ties
> for mode. There might be substantive solution(s) to that.
-egen ... mode()...-
has some options for handling ties. In case anyone is interested, I 
wrote a variation that breaks ties by taking the latest-occurring in the data.

--David

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