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st: RE: RE: filling in missing string


From   "Terra Curtis" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: filling in missing string
Date   Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:45:15 -0500

Nick,

There are multiple products per molecule...

What does putting "molecule" in parentheses do in this line:
bysort product (molecule) : replace... 

Thanks again.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: filling in missing string

If there is a one-to-one match between -product- and -molecule-, then 

bysort product (molecule) : replace molecule = molecule[_N] if mi(molecule) 

may be what you want, as the non-missing strings get sorted to the end of
each block. 

Nick
[email protected] 

Terra Curtis
 
> I have a dataset which looks like:
> 
> 	Product	company	molecule
> 	A		X		x1
> 	A		Y		
> 	A		Z		x1
> 	.		.		.
> 	.		.		.
> 	.		.		.
> 
> I have several examples of this throughout a large dataset.  
> I want to fill
> in the missing "x1" under the molecule variable.  Is there some way to 
> do this using -by product- ?

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