st: Re: Re: Finding and tagging overlapping groups

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Just a quick note about the code I posted.  It may not work if the two 
variables keep expanding into other values for the opposing variable more 
than the 4 lines (two repetitions) now cover in this part of the code.

bysort `done' `v2' (`gen'): replace `gen'=`gen'[1]
bysort `done' `v1' (`gen'): replace `gen'=`gen'[1]
bysort `done' `v2' (`gen'): replace `gen'=`gen'[1]
bysort `done' `v1' (`gen'): replace `gen'=`gen'[1]

You could add an inner loop with a count command to see if any values 
changed from the replace command and then keep going until no changes occur. 
Or, you could just copy these lines over again a few times in the loop to 
hopefully cover any actual data complexity.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net


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