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Re: st: Seeing if the last observation equals previous observations from a
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"Clyde Schechter" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Seeing if the last observation equals previous observations from a
Date
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:41:00 -0700
If all you need to know is whether any of the observations equals the
last, and you don't need to specifically identify them, then this will
also work (and it doesn't matter what type of variable X is):
capture assert X != X[_N] if _n < _N
local nothing_equal = (c(rc) == 0)
You can then use the nothing_equal local macro to condition subsequent code:
if `nothing_equal' {
Clyde Schechter, MA MD
Associate Professor of Family & Social Medicine
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