> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of austin nichols
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Counting unique values over moving time windows
>
> Note that -inspect- will report missing if there are more than 99
> distinct obs, whereas -distinct- or -unique- have much higher limits
> (up to double precision, I believe).
<snip>
Good catch on the limitation of -inspect-, however, in this case with a 5
year window it may not matter.
Scott
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