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Re: st: AW: combining datasets
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: combining datasets
Date
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:18:07 +0000 (GMT)
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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--- On Wed, 18/8/10, martine etienne wrote:
> > firstly, person 1 in dataset A is NOT same person
> > as person 1 in dataset B
--- On Thu, 19/8/10, Anders Alexandersson wrote:
> Here is the equivalent merge solution:
If the same id's in different datasets refer to different
people, then you cannot use -merge- (well you can, but
the resulting dataset will not make sense). All numbers in
a row in your dataset must relate to the same person (or
region, company, ant, or whatever else you may choose to
study).
-- Maarten
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