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Re: st: how to find out observations that id variables can't uniquely identify?


From   William Buchanan <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: how to find out observations that id variables can't uniquely identify?
Date   Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:59:18 -0700

Hi Nina,

-duplicates drop appIno productno-

- Billy
On Oct 19, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Nina YIN wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I want to merge two large datasets, before I merge them, I checked
> whether id variables(applno productno) uniquely identify observations:
> "by applno productno:assert _N==1", it turns out "4 contradictions in
> 26586 by-groups ", then I want to figure out what's the problem with
> these 4 contradictions. However I don't know how to find out where
> they are? Do you have any suggestions? Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> 
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> Best Regards,
> Nina YIN
> 
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