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st: manipulating chains of data


From   Dalhia <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: manipulating chains of data
Date   Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:40:34 -0800 (PST)

Hello, 


I have network data in the following two columns:


column1 column2

FirmA person1
person1 FirmB
FirmB FirmC
person2 FirmB
FirmA person3


I
 need to find a way to convert this data so that only firms remain in 
the data. Basically, in cases where a person is the link between two 
firms, I want the firms to get directly linked. So I want to somehow 
convert the data to this form:

column1 column2
FirmA FirmB
FirmB FirmC


Is
 there a way that Stata can do this automatically? I have 58000 rows and
 there is no way to do this manually. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Dalhia
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