Re: st: collapse

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Try
egen newvar = mode(oldvar), by(groupvars)

Then reduce to one observation per groupvars.

Note that there are some options on -egen...mode-, which you may want to 
look into.
See -help egen-.

I also have an alternative mode function (regarding how it handles ties); 
write me privately if you want to have it.

-- David.

At 03:36 PM 2/23/2004 -0500, Adrian wrote:

> Dear Stata friends,
>
> I am trying to collapse some variables using the MODE as my descriptive
> statistic, but I see that -collapse- doesn't allow this. Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you.
> Adrian
> [...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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