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Re: st: comparing datasets
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: comparing datasets
Date
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:56:43 +0200
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Abhimanyu Arora wrote:
> If I may ask, what does the
> asterisk mean in the line -unab first: *-?
The asterisk is a shortcut representing "all variables"
> -di `first'- actually doesn't give the list of the
> variables....instead giving a string of values taken up by the first
> observation.
that is because you should have written di "`first'".
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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