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st: RE: curious behavior of drop


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: curious behavior of drop
Date   Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:32:51 +0200

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Martin Weiss
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael McCulloch
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:33 PM
To: Statalist
Subject: st: curious behavior of drop

Hello,
I have a dataset that includes two variables:
	age
	agecat
I'm puzzled as to why
. drop age

will drop both! Should it behave this way?

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Michael McCulloch



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