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Re: st: identifying observations where multiple conditions are met
From
Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: identifying observations where multiple conditions are met
Date
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:31:44 -0500
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Michael McCulloch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Richard, when I enter the first line of code:
>
> . gen byte mintype=min(type), by(id)
>
> I get "invalid syntax
> r(198);"
because gen does not support by-suffix, see help generate
Use -egen- instead of -gen-. See help egen.
Sergiy
>
> I'm using:
> Stata/IC 13.0 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
> Revision 07 Oct 2013
>
> Is there a command I need to download?
>
> Best wishes,
> Michael McCulloch
>
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> On Nov 13, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:
>
>> if I understand what you are asking for correctly, I would do the following:
>>
>> gen byte mintype=min(type), by(id)
>> gen byte maxtype=max(type), by(id)
>> ta id if mintype==0 & maxtype==1
>>
>> note that if there are a maximum of 2 occurrences of the id there are
>> ways to do this in one statement, but from what you said it appears that
>> id can occur more than 2 times
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On 11/13/13, 3:14 PM, Michael McCulloch wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have data of the structure:
>>> id (range 1 to 300)
>>> type (for each -id-, should equal only one of two values: 0 or 1).
>>>
>>> In manual inspection of the data, I see instances exist where, for the same -id-,
>>> some records have type==0, and
>>> other records have type==1.
>>>
>>> If I enter
>>> . tab id if type==0 & type==1
>>> obviously "no observations" is returned.
>>>
>>> How would I write a command in which I can tabulate all -id- for which some
>> observations exist where type==0, and others where type==1? (At data entry,
>> -type- should have unique for each -id-.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Michael McCulloch
>>>
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>>> 124 Pine Street | San Anselmo | California | 94960-2674
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