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Re: st: Recoding with values of the next spell
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Recoding with values of the next spell
Date
Wed, 29 May 2013 22:25:08 +0100
Rich is correct. For a review see
SJ-8-4 dm0042 . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Distinct observations
(help distinct if installed) . . . . . . N. J. Cox and G. M. Longton
Q4/08 SJ 8(4):557--568
shows how to answer questions about distinct observations
from first principles; provides a convenience command
.pdf freely available at
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0042
Nick
[email protected]
On 29 May 2013 21:31, Richard Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> there are built-in commands that will give you this (e.g., -codebook-)
> and there are user-written commands also; use -findit- to find either or
> both of -unique-, -distinct-
On 5/29/13 4:18 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
>> Many thanks. How about if I want to count the total number of persons instead of spells? In this case, the total number of persons is 3 as deduced from the id.
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