maybe also try -panels-. See
. ssc describe panels
ben
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
>
> See the tips by Nick and coauthor here: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/distinct.html
>
>
> For instance:
>
> ***
> clear*
> set obs 2000
> gen id=_n
> bys id: gen byte first =_n==1
> cou if first
> //now only 1999 unique
> clear*
> set obs 2000
> gen id=_n
> replace id=2 in 3
> bys id: gen byte first =_n==1
> cou if first
> ***
>
> HTH
> Martin
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:05:41 -0600
>> Von: "Weichle, Thomas" <[email protected]>
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: st: Command to identify number of unique individuals
>
>> Hi Statalisters,
>> Is there a command that will list the number of unique individuals in my
>> dataset? I'm familiar with the duplicates and dups commands, but these
>> aren't showing me the number of unique individuals.
>> It should be equivalent to the following SAS command which will identify
>> the number of unique observations by study_id:
>>
>> PROC SORT NODUPKEY DATA=test;
>> BY study_id;
>> RUN;
>>
>> Tom Weichle
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