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Re: st: How to (almost) randomly reduce the number of observations?
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to (almost) randomly reduce the number of observations?
Date
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:02:18 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Mon, 19/4/10, Dimitrije Tišma wrote:
> I would like to ask how to reduce number of observations
> randomly BUT in a way that all observations are kept that
> are related to the person who still in the dataset.
*---------- begin example -------------
// create some example data
clear
set obs 100
gen id = _n
expand 10
bys id : gen t = _n
sort id t
list in 1/22, sepby(id)
// randomly drop 50%
bys id: gen u = runiform() if _n == 1
bys id: egen uu = total(u)
keep if uu < .5
drop u uu
*----------- end example ----------------
hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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