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Re: st: matching by characteristics
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: matching by characteristics
Date
Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:17:15 -0400
I suggest that you look -cem- ("coarsened exact matching") from ssc.
Steve
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Dmitriy Krichevskiy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I would use -mdesc- (user written). Some examples cold be found here,
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/nummiss_stata.htm
> (In Stata use-findit mdesc- to find and install.)
>
> On 8/9/10, Shubhabrata Mukherjee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a dataset of around 1000 people and I want to see how much the
>> sample
>> size diminishes by if I match the participants just by age, by age and
>> education, by age, education and gender and so on. I do want to do some
>> preliminary analyses on those matched people so I would like to store them
>> in
>> same manner.
>>
>> So, I am thinking of a table like this:
>>
>> Matching Variable Sample size ID variable
>>
>> Age XX id_a
>>
>> Age & educ YY id_ae
>>
>> .................
>>
>>
>> Is there any function in STATA which will accomplish this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Joey
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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