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| From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: comparing datasets |
| Date | Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:56:43 +0200 |
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Abhimanyu Arora wrote: > If I may ask, what does the > asterisk mean in the line -unab first: *-? The asterisk is a shortcut representing "all variables" > -di `first'- actually doesn't give the list of the > variables....instead giving a string of values taken up by the first > observation. that is because you should have written di "`first'". Hope this helps, Maarten -------------------------- Maarten L. Buis Institut fuer Soziologie Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstrasse 36 72074 Tuebingen Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl -------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/