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Re: st: identifying observations where multiple conditions are met


From   Michael McCulloch <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: identifying observations where multiple conditions are met
Date   Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:33:28 -0800

Thanks Richard!
Works just fine!


Best wishes,
Michael McCulloch

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On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:

> sorry for my typo - should be -egen- rather than -gen-
> 
> Rich
> 
> On 11/13/13, 4:22 PM, Michael McCulloch wrote:
>> Thanks Richard, when I enter the first line of code:
>> 
>> . gen byte mintype=min(type), by(id)
>> 
>> I get "invalid syntax
>> r(198);"
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> --
>> Pine Street Foundation, since 1989
>> 124 Pine Street | San Anselmo | California | 94960-2674  
>> P: (415) 407-1357 | F: (206) 338-2391 | http://www.PineStreetFoundation.org
>> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Pine Street Foundation, since 1989
>>>> 124 Pine Street | San Anselmo | California | 94960-2674  
>>>> P: (415) 407-1357 | F: (206) 338-2391 | http://www.PineStreetFoundation.org
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