Michael McCulloch wrote:
I have a dataset that includes two variables:
age
agecat
I'm puzzled as to why
. drop age
will drop both! Should it behave this way?
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I can not reproduce your finding which certainly is disturbing.
I did:
. clear
. set varabbrev on
. set obs 1
. gen age=1
. gen agecat=1
. list , clean
age agecat
1. 1 1
. drop age
. list , clean
agecat
1. 1
So, even if -varabbrev- is on, -drop age- did not drop -agecat-.
Stata/SE 10 for Windows, updated 27 May /25 June.
Svend
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