Re: st: Re: Using NEARMRG

["MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>]

Yes, you're right... I had 1 (!!) missing value...
Thanks again.


> From: "Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: Re: st: Re: Using NEARMRG
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:55:26 -0400
>
> -nearmrg- calls the Stata command -isid- to check that the variable list 
> uniquely identifies the observations.  Have you looked at the data to see 
> if there are duplicates?  Perhaps it's a problem with missing values since 
> isid will not allow missing values wihtout specifying the missok option.  
> If that is the problem, I suggest you drop the cases with missing values on 
> either age or region.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:44 PM
> Subject: RE: st: Re: Using NEARMRG
>
>
>
> > I know you're the author and I thank you for these and many other programs 
> > that have helped me a lot.
> > One of the things I tried was dropping all the duplicates for both region 
> > and age in the using file (before doing the merge):
> > duplicates drop age, force
> > duplicates drop region, force
> >
> > This should have made the nearvar unique in the using dataset within 
> > levels of the varlist, right?
> >
> > But I keep getting the same error message.
> >
> > Another thing that I forgot to mention is that, in my case age is a string 
> > variable (and yes, I used the option "upper" to prevent getting error 
> > messages related with the fact that the nearvar is a string variable).
> >
> > If you have any suggestions I would appreciate your help.
> > Thanks!
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