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Re: st: Speed with large panel datasets
From
Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Speed with large panel datasets
Date
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:45:47 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Mon, 21/3/11, Gordon Hughes wrote:
> So, my test was:
>
> use xxx.dta, clear
> tsset panel time, monthly
> <various Stata commands to create variables>
> save temp.dta, replace
> statsby _b _se, basepop(panel==1) by panel: arima ....
>
> Stata's response
>
> no; data in memory would be lost
> r(4);
>
<snip> what is the logic, given that I have already used -save-?
-statsby- throws away the data that is currently in memory, and
it won't let you do something that dramatic unless you explicitly
tell it so by specifying the -clear- option.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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