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Re: st: RE: prtest and fweights


From   Roger Newson <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: prtest and fweights
Date   Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:21:52 +0100

At 12:53 22/09/2004, Ronan M Conroy wrote:
Nick Cox wrote:

I can't comment on why not. I guess no one asked, or no one thought of doing it.
For the moment,
preserve expand
prtest restore

But beware of -expand-. If an observation represents a zero frequency, it will be retained. You will see a warning but it's a behaviour that you might not have anticipated.

I transcribe tables from papers that I am reviewing into Stata frequently, to cross-check stats, and it's easy to transcribe a zero without remembering that this will create a single observation in the expanded dataset.
A possible way around this problem is to use -expgen-, downloadable from SSC. -expgen- is an extended version of -expand-, and does not retain observations with a zero or missing value for the expression, unless the user specifies the -zero- or -missing- options. -expgen- can also generate new variables, containing the sequence number of the duplicate observation (amongst its duplicates in the new data set) and the position of its parent observation in the old data set.

Roger


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