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Re: st: re: egen with error after set obs erases obs
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: re: egen with error after set obs erases obs
Date
Tue, 8 Feb 2011 19:02:53 +0000
-egen- is an official command. Some users (originally) wrote some of
the functions but the whole beast has always been official. More
crucially, it's what Stata does between the commands that is biting
here.
Nick
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Airey, David C
<[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>
> Yes, well technically I never said egen erases data. I said erases obs meaning the effect of the set obs command. I know code written by you wouldn't do that, ;).
>
> -Dave
>
>
>> This tip would help avoid the problem it describes. But as I already
>> explained: do not blame -egen- for erasing data that was never there.
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