Re: st: Subset of data into new file

[Steven Archambault <archstevej@gmail.com>]

Okay, my repeats are the group names. I think my data example did not
go through as I set it up. But, duplicates drop worked. The key
though, is to tell stata which variables to keep first.  In my case

keep Group GroupAvgSize
duplicates drop

...then I can merge as normal to give each indv the group average (in
the larger data set).

Thanks!

-Steve

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu> wrote:
> <>
>
> It's not clear from your example which dataset your "repeats" are in, but you can use -duplicates drop- to remove them before the merge , e.g.
>
> ****************!
> clear
> Indv (Group) Size GroupAvgSize
> 1        a          2           4
> 2        a          4           4
> 3        a          6           4
> 1        b          3           3
> 2        b          4           3
> 3        b          2           3
> end
> duplicates drop Indiv Group, force
> save using, replace
>
> clear
> inp Indiv    str5(Group)
> 1           a
> 2           a
> 3           a
> 4           a
> 5           a
> 1           b
> 2           b
> 3           b
> 4           b
> 5           b
> end
> duplicates drop Indiv Group, force
> merge 1:1 Indiv Group using using.dta
> ta _m
> ****************!
>
> ~ Eric
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> On Aug 20, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Steven Archambault wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have data about groups, from which I am calculating means for the groups.
>>
>> Indiv Group Size GroupAvgSize
>> 1        a          2           4
>> 2        a          4           4
>> 3        a          6           4
>> 1        b          3           3
>> 2        b          4           3
>> 3        b          2           3
>>
>>
>> Then, I want to merge the group avg size with a larger set of data
>> containing the same groups, but a larger set of individuals (where
>> size is not recorded).
>>
>> Indv    Group
>> 1           a
>> 2           a
>> 3           a
>> 4           a
>> 5           a
>> 1           b
>> 2           b
>> 3           b
>> 4           b
>> 5           b
>>
>> Is there a way to do this without exporting the data with GroupAvgSize
>> to a spreadsheet, where I could crop out the repeats?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Steve
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