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Re: st: how to find out observations that id variables can't uniquely identify?
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Nina YIN <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how to find out observations that id variables can't uniquely identify?
Date
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:39:57 +0200
Thank you, Steve, Jorge, Pedro, William!
Your suggestions works well.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:59 PM, William Buchanan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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!
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Nina YIN
> >
> >
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Best Regards,
Nina YIN
Toulouse School of Economics
Manufacture des Tabacs
21 Allee de Brienne
Toulouse, 31000, France
Tel: 0033-(0)5 6123 8348
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