Re: st: Combining and repeating value from another dataset
Date
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:26:52 -0700
Thanks Nick.
How do I do this using without actually hard coding the value in? That
is I want something like
gen e = {get variable from Y.dta}, because I will be repeating the
process many times.
The situation arises because I am generating, saving and analyzing
bootstraps and now want to join the bootstrapped estimates back to the
source data. So essentially, take a variable, create 50 bootstrapped
estimates, manipulate the estimates, and then stitch together the
original variable to the 50 bootstraps. So I have 1 obs in Y.dta and 50
obs in X.dta (where X.dta contains the manipulated bootstrapped values).
Any suggestions? Thanks,
R
On 4/14/2013 3:38 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
You don't need anything fancy.
Suppose the one value in Y.dta is 42.
In X data, you just go
gen e = 42
That's it. (If the value is a string value, say "Stata is easy", it's
the same story.)
That said, why do this? What analyses need it?
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 14 April 2013 06:19, Rahber Thariani <thariani@gmail.com> wrote:
A question to which I am sure there is a simple answer, but as a novice in
Stata, one I am having a hard time finding.
I have a dataset with variables a, b, c and d (stored in X.dta). There are
about 5000 observations.
In another dataset I have only variable e(stored in Y.dta). There is only
one observation.
I want to create a composite dataset with variables a, b, c, d and e. I
wish to repeat the same value of e 5,000 times in my new dataset for each of
the existing 5,000 observations of a, b, c, and d.
What do you suggest to create this structure?
