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Re: st: generate variable versus define scalar, with conditional statement


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: generate variable versus define scalar, with conditional statement
Date   Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:32:46 +0000

It's certainly good technique.

. isid date

is another way to do it.

. tsset date

would also test uniqueness (literally!) of dates.

Nick

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:35 PM, annoporci <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Or, he can check if each date occurs at most once,
>> and simplify his code.
>>         bys date : assert _n == 1
>>         summ  open if date == mdy(1,2,2001), meanonly
>>         scalar newscalar = r(mean)
>
>
> In the present case, date is a unique identifier, but this is a great
> addition to my toolkit:
>
>
> bys date : assert _n == 1
>
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