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Re: st: comparing datasets
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Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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Re: st: comparing datasets
Date
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 18:05:57 +0200
Thanks very much indeed, Maarten.
Have a nice evening!
Abhimanyu
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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