Stas
You should be cautious using -inspect- to return the number of unique
values. It runs out of steam after 99 distinct values and thereafter
reports r(N_unique) as missing. This may cause problems in your
program. -tabulate- (then look at r(r) ) is a better option, but it too
has limits.
Nick Cox and Gary Longton have a useful FAQ on the subject and point to
some user-written solutions:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/distinct.html
Phil
At 02:47 PM 2/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:
--- Nick Winter wrote:
> You might be able to make good use of the -inspect- command; when run on
> a single variable, it seems to leave behind the number of unique values
> in r(N_unique)
Cool! That solved it. Another update available, then.
--- Stas Kolenikov
-- Ph.D. student in Statistics at UNC-Chapel Hill
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