When using duplicates drop, Stata will keep the first occurrence and
drop any subsequent ones. If you want to selectively drop specific
duplicates, then I suggest you do it manually, for example:
bysort id: gen dup=_n
gen dup2="YES" if dup>1
replace dup2="NO" if dup==1
then, you can selectively drop the observations you want according to
the value of some other variable, for example:
drop if dup2=="YES" & some_variable=="something_value"
Hope this helps,
Thomas
Thomas Speidel
Statistical Associate
Department of Oncology
Tom Baker Cancer Centre
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