Martin,
I was reading Joseph's messagen again and actually I was confused. I
was reading concord and thinking about compare. I apologize.
Joao Lima
2008/11/25 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
> Joao,
>
> please explain your idea a little more comprehensively: how does -assert-
> further Joseph`s cause?
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Lima
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: trouble using _n-1
>
> Joseph,
>
> I think that this can do the trick:
>
> by idcode: assert var1-var1[_N-1]==0
>
> HTH,
>
> Joao Lima
>
> 2008/11/25 Joseph Wagner <[email protected]>:
>> I wish to use the program -concord- to perform an interrater reliability
> for
>> a rater. The data is arranged as such:
>>
>> idcode date var1 var2
>> --------------------------------------------
>> person1 date var1 var2
>> person1 date var1 var2
>> person2 date var1 var2
>> person2 date var1 var2
>>
>>
>> there are too many variables and observations for me to -reshape- wide so
> I
>> thought that I could try this:
>>
>> bysort idcode date: concord var1 var1[_n-1] since the data is arrayed
>> as pairs of observations which I wish to compare
>>
>> but instead of working I get the following error: "_n unknown weight type"
>>
>> Am I forced to try some sort of piecewise -reshape- (sets of variables) or
>> am I just doing this all wrong?
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