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st: Re: st: 回复： AW: 回复： st: AW: do file
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Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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st: Re: st: 回复： AW: 回复： st: AW: do file
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Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:39:54 +0000
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, lydia huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> after i use the do-file, i typed -ta _merge-, then it come out a table with the titles in the first row: _merge, Freq., Percent, Cum.,is this the right outcome?
Yes, because Martin is suggesting that you look at the tabulation
(abbreviated to -ta-) of the '_merge' variable which is created after
a -merge- command has been issued to give you an indication of how
many observations were unique to each of the two datasets and how many
were common to both.
I'd be inclined to check in each of the files 'written' and '13' that
the "patient_id" variable is indeed unique, and to further read the
documentation for the -merge- command (for the version of Stata that
you are using, which you've not documented).
To check for duplicates you can...
duplicates report patient_id
Neil
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