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st: Subtract Closest Cell Which has A Value


From   Lisa Wang <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Subtract Closest Cell Which has A Value
Date   Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:41:46 +1100

Dear all,

I have another question. I have two columns of values - variables A
and B to make it simple. I would like to A-B in a new column C;
however, column B has a lot of missing values (.), so it doesn't seem
that simple. Variable A is complete, so no missing data. I would like
Stata to find the nearest cell (data is already sorted by column D)
with a value in column B to subtract off for each panel that I have.

For instance,

51	.	31
50	.	30
47	20	27
51	.	31
25	.	5
49	.	29
45	.	25
24	.	4
51	.	1
22	.	-28
27	.	-23
57	.	7
20	.	-30
57	50	7
59	.	9
33	.	-17

Would this be possible?

Many thanks,
Lisa
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