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Re: st: Re: dropping cases in hetgrot


From   "Clive Nicholas" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: dropping cases in hetgrot
Date   Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:28:37 -0000 (GMT)

Richard A. Williams wrote:

> This part of the code would seem to be the obvious candidate:
>
> drop if e(sample)==0
>
> If this is the culprit and you don't want the cases dropped, either (a)
> rewrite the code using if statements to always select those cases in
> e(sample), or (b) just reopen your data set at the end.

Kit Baum replied:

> Modifying the routine to do a preserve at the top and restore at the
> bottom would be a cleaner solution.

Unfortunately, Kit's solution didn't work. I tried it with my own dataset,
running an -xtgls- model of Nationalist voting in Scotland and Wales.
Naturally enough, calling -hetgrot- knocked out the English cases!

I think I'll admit defeat here and simply use -clear-.

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