-egen- is a slip here for -gen-. But you could do this without any new variables at all.
bysort myid : drop if _N <= 2
That said, I support Joseph's last paragraph strongly.
Nick
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Joseph McDonnell
. sort myid
. by myid: egen myN=_N
. drop if myN<=2
Of course, dropping is quite a severe step. You might prefer to use
one of the 'mark' commands or just use the 'if' qualifier.
Christian Bustamante
> I runing a panel data model with a large dataset. The panel is
> unnbalanced, so there is individuals with one or two observations. I
> don't want to use this observations in my model, how can I set it?
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