--- Stata Chris wrote:
> You're right that the help menu for -nearest- says if conditions are
> allowed, yet whenever I try to execute nearest in combination with
> some if command (I also tried simple ones, to make sure it's not just
> due to the specifics of which if-command I use), Stata tells me
> "option if not allowed; r(198)". Not sure what to make of that?
This error message suggest that you put the -if- statement after the
comma, but -if- is not an option (it almost never is) and should thus appear before the comma.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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