Please show us an example of what you mean.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of joe J.
> Sent: 20 April 2004 17:22
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: -finddup- for panel?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a panel data set, where there are duplicates of the
> panel variable.
> But I want to retain them because the mistake is only in the
> panel variable,
> not in other variables in the observation. (For my analysis, I would
> aggregate the data so that the panel variable is no longer relevant.)
>
> BUT, I keep the panel format in the beginning in order to
> fill in missing
> values using interpolation. To do this I want to keep out
> observations with
> the duplicate panel variable and append them back after
> interpolation has
> been done. For a non-panel data, I could use the stata-code
> -FINDDUP- (by
> Fred Wolfe downloadable from SSC). -finddup- helps to take
> out a particular
> duplicate observation and save it for later use. But it does
> not work in a
> panel set up. Is there any way around, other than doing it
> sepeartely for
> each year?
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