st: Re: how to flag up obs that are the reverse of other obs?

["Ada Ma" <Pelikan_4001@hotmail.com>]

Hi again,

My original post:
I want to know how to drop some observations.  For example I have the
following data, the numbers are identifiers:

Original        Fake
1                    23
14                   235
35                    90
45                    87
87                    45

Now the 4th and 5th pairs are the exact opposite of one another.  I want to
drop the 5th observation, but I don't know I can use the data to flag up
such observations so that I can drop it.  Could someone show me the light?

My thanks to David Airey's suggestion, but it didn't work.  I tried
something in the vein of what he's suggested, e.g.:

local i=1
local j=1
gen weirdob=.

while `i'<82845 {

while `j'<`i' {
replace weirdob[`i']=1 if original[`i']==fake[`j'] &
fake[`i']==original[`j']
local j=`j'+1
}

local i=`i'+1
}

Stata wouldn't do weights. Are there other strategies that I can employ??

Thanks again.

Ada Ma
Department of Economics
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Pelikan_4001@hotmail.com
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