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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 25 November 2008 16:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: -panelthin- available on SSC
Following its mention yesterday in a thread started by Leny Matthew, I have written a help file for -panelthin- and posted it to Kit Baum, who has kindly posted the package on SSC.
Use -ssc- as usual to install.
-panelthin- identifies observations that would belong in a thinned panel
dataset in which observations in each panel are at least a minimum
time apart. The result is a new variable tagging observations in the
thinned dataset by 1 and others by 0.
The calculation is carried out looping up to the maximum length of panel. That is more efficient than a naïve loop over observations. If anything can figure a way of doing it without any loop, do signal.
The procedure in -panelthin- was in broad terms suggested by Rajesh Tharyan in a Statalist posting in May. The help gives the precise URL.
Stata 8 is required.
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