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Re: st: BASIC QUESTION - counts of counts
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"Dimitriy V. Masterov" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: BASIC QUESTION - counts of counts
Date
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:32:26 -0400
Ben,
Try a preserve before and a restore after.
DVM
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dimitry's file is perfect, except that I do not want to have to reload the
> original table (Fernando - there is a host of other pertinent info
> additionally in the table so they are not actually duplicates as I showed
> below in my simple example).
>
> So, is there any way to produce what is in the Dimitry table in the output
> panel? (for example like a tab produces a table of frequencies)
>
> Ben
> ======================================
> Re: st: BASIC QUESTION - counts of counts
> From Fernando Rios Avila <[email protected]>
> To [email protected]
> Subject Re: st: BASIC QUESTION - counts of counts
> Date Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:10:05 -0400
>
> Well, i would first drop the duplicate obsevations:
> duplicates drop state county
> and then use Dimitriy code.
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does this do what you want?
>>
>> collapse (count) county, by(state)
>>
>> DVM
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Ben Hoen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Can someone help me to produce a table that counts the number of unique
>>> occurrences of a group inside another group?
>>>
>>> For example assume I had the following table:
>>>
>>> Number State County
>>> 1 NY Madison
>>> 2 NY Madison
>>> 3 PA Somerset
>>> 4 NY Oneida
>>> 5 PA Somerset
>>> 6 PA Wayne
>>> 7 PA Luzerne
>>>
>>> I want to produce a table like this:
>>> State County
>>> NY 2
>>> PA 3
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Ben
>
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