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Re: st: How do I produce a dataset based on all possible *triplets* of identifiers within each group?
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How do I produce a dataset based on all possible *triplets* of identifiers within each group?
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Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:54:06 -0400
Karin Jensen <[email protected]>:
Induction. You can do it once for one pair of identifiers, then do
egen firstpair=group(id1 id2)
to make a new single id, and repeat using firstpair and id3.
But see -help cross-
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:40 PM, K Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Statalisters
>
> I would like to use similar techniques to this excellent article by
> Nick Cox to generate all possible *triplets* within a group rather
> than pairs :- http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/pairs.html
>
> I am not being very smart here but I can't see how to generalize this.
> Could anyone give me any tips?
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