Re: st: Re: How to merge individual records to groups in a largedataset, w/o using collapse

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I think you misunderstood me.  I didn't suggest doing one variable at a 
time, although that could be built into the loop too and may be a viable 
alternative overall.  What I suggested was to analyze  one category  of 
group6 at a time within a loop and only using only the variables in the 
dataset that you need summary stats for (assuming rhere may be other 
variables in that large dataset that aren't needed for this task) .  The 
entire process can be written into a do or ado file to automatically create 
the results dataset you want.  You didn't bother answering my questions 
about how many levels there are in region6 and whether the variables you 
need could fit in memory using the largest region6 category, so I won't 
bother showing you the code to automate it :)

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allon Crazy" <allon_crazy@yahoo.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: st: Re: How to merge individual records to groups in a large 
dataset, w/o using collapse



> Thanks, Michael,
>
> Region6 is a variable with a list of values. yes, i
> guess I can try to sum/mea/median one variable each
> time. Hopefully it works. In the meantime, if there
> is another command or command combinations that allow
> me to accomplish the same task, it would be great.
>
> Thanks again.
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