You're right. There is some missing data for a small number of individuals.
How can I drop the individual with non consecutive data?
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Scott Merryman
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> Given that the smallest group size is 1 though all panels have at
> least 4 observations, I would suspect you have non-consecutive
> observations and you are using lags.
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> Note: that should have been -bysort panelvar: keep if _N>=4-
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> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Christian Bustamante <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi and thanks for answer.
>> Only one doubt: after dropping the observations and running xtregar,
>> the results says
>>
>> Obs per group: min = 1
>> avg = 4.6
>> max = 9
>>
>> Why obs per group are 1? It shouldn't be 5?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Scott Merryman
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> bysort panelvar: keep if _N>4
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Christian Bustamante <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm runing a regression model with a unbalanced panel. I want to drop
>>>> observations of individuals that doesn't have at least observations
>>>> for 4 years. How can I do that?
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