Hi--thanks for the comments on this. For the record, I found that the
easiest thing was to cross the paired dataset with the original (after
renaming) and then to do some judicious dropping.
Thankyou again
Karin
On 11 August 2011 17:54, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> wrote:
> Karin Jensen <k.x.jensen@gmail.com>:
> Induction. You can do it once for one pair of identifiers, then do
> egen firstpair=group(id1 id2)
> to make a new single id, and repeat using firstpair and id3.
>
> But see -help cross-
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:40 PM, K Jensen <k.x.jensen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Statalisters
>>
>> I would like to use similar techniques to this excellent article by
>> Nick Cox to generate all possible *triplets* within a group rather
>> than pairs :- http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/pairs.html
>>
>> I am not being very smart here but I can't see how to generalize this.
>> Could anyone give me any tips?
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