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Re: st: nearmrg for strings (titles)
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: nearmrg for strings (titles)
Date
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:43:48 +0100
Perhaps -name- is string in one dataset and a numeric variable with
value labels in the other. Alternatively, there is some such clash
between datasets.
-nearmrg- is a user-written program from SSC. Please remember to
specify where user-written programs you refer to come from.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Hoecher, Michaela (0613xxx)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to merge two datasets (variables: title, date, publisher).
> The problems is, that strings (tiltes of a book), that are not absolutely the same sould be merged/matched.
> - Does it make sense to use nearmrg for this?
> - In which way are strings merged/matched?
> - What would you recommend me?
>
> - I wanted to test nearmrg, but I got an error message "type mismatch":
>
> string_masterfile.dta
> +--------------------------------------+
> | id name gender age
> |---------------------------------------
> | 5 franzi 1 23
> | 1 meli 1 32
> | 2 michaela 1 20
> | 6 ali 2 25
> | 3 christ 2 20
> | 4 martin 2 44
> +--------------------------------------+
>
> string_matchfile2.dta
> +---------------------------------------+
> | id name gender age
> |----------------------------------------
> | 5 franzi 1 13
> | 1 michi 1 15
> | 2 susi 1 22
> | 4 ali 2 25
> | 3 chris 2 20
> | 5 felix 2 43
> +---------------------------------------+
>
> When I use the command:
> nearmrg gender using string_matchfile2.dta, nearvar(name) lower genmatch(samename)
> or
> nearmrg gender using string_matchfile2.dta, nearvar(name) lower force genmatch(samename)
>
> I geht the error message: "type mismatch"
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