With three or more groups, it is perhaps easier to move to
gen random=runiform()
sort i random
by i: gen byte group = ceil(3 * _n/_N)
"for any value of 3" (hoary mathematical joke)
Nick
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Martin Weiss
Also note Nick`s http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/stat/sampling.html
John Antonakis
Martin recently helped with me with some code, to randomly split panel
data equally into two groups (which I then collapsed afterwards).
I am trying to understand the code regarding the split. My panel
identifier is "i".
I had:
gen random=runiform()
sort i random
by i: gen byte group=cond(_n<=_N/2,1,2)
So, how to I split into 3 groups or 4 groups? I am not sure what the
"gen byte" command does and how the numbers 2,1,2 relate to the command.
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