Re: st: confirm a variable is an identifiant

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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In addition, -isid- comes to mind.

HTH,
Philipp

Stas Kolenikov wrote:
> bysort ID : assert _N == 1
>
> I am sure this has been covered in Stata Journal Nick Cox' "Speaking
> Stata" columns and tips.
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Jean-Benoit
> Hardouin<jean-benoit.hardouin@univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I search to verify if a variable is an identifiant that is to say that each
> > row of a file have a different value on this variable than all the others
> > rows.
> > I want to use the -inspect- to compare the number of "unique value" (if the
> > number of unique value is equal to the number of individual then the
> > variable is an identifiant) but -inspect- don't count the number of
> > different values if this number is superior to 100.
> > Have someone an idea ?
> > Best regards,
> > Jean-Benoit
> >
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