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Re: st: Re: Deleting a cohort


From   David Kantor <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: Deleting a cohort
Date   Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:43:15 -0400

At 09:04 AM 3/29/2007, Sergiy wrote:
gen flag=0
bys ID WAVE: replace flag=1 if empstat[1]="emp"
keep if flag==1
Sara may have gotten her solution by now, but, that should be
bys ID (WAVE): replace flag=1 if empstat[1]="emp"

Note the parens around WAVE. Otherwise, each record will be treated in isolation. I've made this mistake many times.
--David

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