Below is an example of how you can draw clusters (in this case
represented by the variable rep78) without replacement. You have asked
for without replacement so I have given it to you, but in many cases
with replacement is more appropriate.
-- Maarten
*----------------- begin example ----------------
sysuse auto, clear
// create a reduced dataset
keep rep78
bys rep78: keep if _n == 1 & rep78 < .
// draw 3 observations without replacement
gen u = uniform()
sort u
gen byte samp = _n <= 3
drop u
sort rep78
tempfile a
save `a'
// merge with complete dataset
sysuse auto, clear
sort rep78
merge rep78 using `a'
*-------------------- end example ------------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
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--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alternatively, sample from a reduced dataset with one observation per
> ID
> and then
> -merge-.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Peter Adamson
>
> You could try -reshape- on your data first. Then bsample.
>
> Song
>
> I have a question about taking random samples from my data. My
> dataset
> has
> around 12,500 user ID's with 200,000 observations total and I want to
> take
> around 500-600 (number of users) random samples. The problem is that
> each
> member has multiple observations and I want to take all
> sub-observations
> for
> each member. Each ID has 4 to 21 observations. For example, if ID
> number
> 5
> has 10 observations, I want to take all 10 observations given ID
> number
> 5 is
> included in the sample.
>
> I tried the following and ended up with 580 number of users with
> around
> 8,800 observations. This method works, but I wonder if there is there
> any
> better way for this job, because I have to drop duplicated samples
> with
> this
> method.
>
> gen idcnt=_N
> bsample 600, cluster(id) /* sampling with replacement: I do not
> know
> how
> to take cluster samples without replacement. */
> bysort id: egen idcount=count(id)
> compare idcount idcnt
> duplicates tag, gen(dup)
> drop if dup==1 /* To drop duplicated samples */
>
>
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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