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st: RE: How to (almost) randomly reduce the number of observations?


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: How to (almost) randomly reduce the number of observations?
Date   Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:46:48 +0200

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The first part could be accomplished via

*******
drop if runiform()<.7
*******

if a drop of 70% was desired. The second part, you really have to explain it
more comprehensively, I am afraid...

HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dimitrije Tišma
Sent: Montag, 19. April 2010 22:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: How to (almost) randomly reduce the number of observations?

Hi,

I would like to ask how to reduce number of observations randomly BUT
in a way that all observations are kept that are related to the person
who still in the dataset. Thanks!

Dimitrije
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