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Re: st: Identify combinations without respect to the order of the elements


From   Oliver Jones <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Identify combinations without respect to the order of the elements
Date   Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:28:11 +0200

Hi everybody,

someone just sent me an solution to my private email:
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One way to solve the problem would be to create two new variables which have a standard order for the cities. Then you can use egen group to identify the pairs.

That is:

gen first = var1 if var1 <= var2
replace first = var2 if first == ""

gen second = var2 if var1 <= var2
replace second = var1 if second == ""

egen paired = group(first second)
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To my example with the cities var1 would be the variable from and var2 would be the
variable to.

Best
Oliver
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