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Re: st: RE: AW: Identifying unique values with codebook
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Walter Garcia-Fontes <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: AW: Identifying unique values with codebook
Date
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:37:09 +0200
* Nick Cox [16/06/10 16:18]:
> As Martin says, at root this is a precision problem.
>
> Neither -codebook- nor anything else is to blame if it is presented with
> the same values. To hold very large integers you may need to consider
> -long- as another possibility, or even a string representation.
Thanks to both, I solved my problem by identifying my "unique" values
with "egen" with the "group" option, my large numbers came from a
transformation I had to do to identify some groups separately which I
could perfectly (and more elegantly) solve with egen.
--
Walter Garcia-Fontes
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Departament d'Economia i Empresa - http://www.econ.upf.edu
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