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st: re: Comparing variable values with a predefined list in other dataset


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: re: Comparing variable values with a predefined list in other dataset
Date   Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:55:55 -0400

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Re my last posting: if you increase the number of rows in the lookup table to 50,000 and the number of items to be checked to 500, the lookup step in Mata still runs in under 3 seconds, so this is a quite efficient solution.

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html

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