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Re: st: RE: Duplicate combinations of variables


From   Miranda Kim <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Duplicate combinations of variables
Date   Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:28:51 +0000

Thanks a lot Nick!

Nick Cox wrote:
Assuming that your identifiers are numeric, as implied here, then
gen minID = min(CaseID, ControlID)
gen maxID = max(CaseID, ControlID) duplicates report minID maxID and this check will do no harm: assert CaseID != ControlID For more on the min-max trick here, see e.g.
SJ-8-4  dm0043  . Tip 71: The problem of split identity, or how to group
dyads
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
J. Cox
        Q4/08   SJ 8(4):588--591                                 (no
commands)
        tip on how to handle dyadic identifiers

Nick [email protected]
Miranda Kim

I am a Stata 11 user, and I wonder if anyone has advice on achieving the

following:
I have two variables, one with ID numbers for cases and one with ID numbers for matched controls in a case control study. There are 3 controls matched to each case, and a subject may serve as a control for more than one case or later become a case. I am wanting to check that in

my dataset all the pairs of cases and their matched control are unique; ie that I don't have for example:
Case ID Control ID
123 253
253 123

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