Dear Chih-Mao,
-merge is not good because even though two samples are form the same
population they have different observations and can not be matched
perfectly.
My problem can be demostrated with the following example:
Dataset1:
person age gender region income
1 20 M MD 10,000
2 45 F CA 100,000
Dataset 2:
person age gender region income
1 23 F DC ?
2 35 M TX ?
I need program that will match people based on age gender region
and will set income in dataset2 based on closest match from 1.
Oleksandr.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chih-Mao Hsieh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: st: RE: matching in Stata
> Dear Oleksandr
>
> I would imagine that -merge- is what you're looking for, maybe with a
couple -gen- commands along the way. What is ultimately done will depend on
what you intend to do with all the "extra" observations in X2 (whether you
still want to match those, or you have a rule to leave some unmatched).
>
> Chihmao.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Oleksandr
Shepotylo
> Sent: Wed 9/17/2003 10:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Subject: st: matching in Stata
>
>
>
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Is there any Stata procedure that will match observations from 2
different
> datasets drawn from the same population.
> Let's say, I have datasets X1=(x,y) and X2=(x). I want to construct
> X2*=(x*,y) based on mathching observations with closest x's. Also, since
X2
> has more observations correspondence
> should not be 1 to 1.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oleksandr.
>
>
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