Re: st: how can I merge two data sets over a range of values

[Lim Lee <lee.haklim@gmail.com>]

you can create a variable "x" tagging all price==20 in dataset1 and
variable "x" tagging all price in the range of 19.5 to 20.5.  If you
have more than one value with price=20 your going to have to make that
each observation unique or drop one since merging m:m makes little
sense and the merging process requires at least one dataset to be
uniquely identified with regard to the variable your are matching the
datasets with.

hope this might be of help.

Lim

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Richard Warr <rswarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I want to merge two data sets.  The merge variable is the stock
> price.  However I would like to merge over a range of prices.  For
> example if the price is 20 in dataset1, I would like that to merge
> with any price in the range of 19.5 to 20.5 in dataset2.   Currently
> my data sets each contain only a single stock price series (and other
> variables).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>
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