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Re: st: duplicates tagged, but list is not limited to unique values


From   "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: duplicates tagged, but list is not limited to unique values
Date   Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:32:35 +0100 (BST)

Michael McCulloch wrote:

> I would like to tag and display duplicate values of 4 variables. This
> works
> if I DROP duplicates, but not if I TAG them. I'd like to be able to keep
> my
> data! Am I doing the DUPLICATES incorrectly, or the LIST?
>
> ***TAG METHOD
> .sort var1 var2 var3 var4
> .duplicates tag var1 var2 var3 var4, generate(tag)
> .list var1 var2 var3 var4 tag if tag, noobs
>
> var1    var2    var3    var4            tag
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
>
> ***DROP METHOD
> .duplicates drop var1   var2    var3    var4, force
> .list var1      var2    var3    var4 tag if &tag, clean noobs
>
> var1    var2    var3    var4            tag
> 3       no      yes     .8571423        52
> 3       yes     yes     .5784351        12
> 4       no      yes     .7797139        70
> 5       no      yes     .6761742        21

I would do the following (let's call the tag variable "marker"):

. sort var1 var2 var3 var4
. egen marker=tag(var1 var2 var3 var4)

That should work. See -whelp egen- for more.

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