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Re: st: how can I merge two data sets over a range of values
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Richard Warr <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how can I merge two data sets over a range of values
Date
Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:09:14 -0500
I''ve done more research and this is basically something that SAS PROC
SQL can deal with - basically merge if a value falls within a range of
values. Append could work but would require a lot of cleaning up
afterwards. I know that I won't get a 1:1 match, but that's OK as I
will then pick the best match later.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you explain why this is not an -append- problem, that is, precisely why
> you want matching or pairing and in what sense you expect 1:1 matching or
> pairing to be possible anyway?
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> On 9 Feb 2012, at 15:01, Richard Warr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but I am not sure that will work as my variables are
>> continuous. Both the dataset1 variable and the dataset2 variables can
>> vary up to 3 decimal places. In each case I want to merge them if
>> they are basically close to each other even if they aren't exactly
>> alike. So something like merge x with y(+/- 0.5) is what I am
>> looking for.
>>
>> Here is just a snippet of the data
>> 15.9375
>> 20.6
>> 39.53
>> 40.85
>> 65.31
>> 62.538
>> 7.969
>> 10.875
>> 10.3
>> 9.625
>> 19.765
>> 20.425
>> 34.82
>> 31.1
>> 29.78
>> 7.969
>> 19.765
>>
>>
>> In each case I want to be able to set a level of precision for the
>> merge and allow a merge even if the variable isn't exactly the same.
>> Perhaps it can't be done!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Lim Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> you can create a variable "x" tagging all price==20 in dataset1 and
>>> variable "x" tagging all price in the range of 19.5 to 20.5. If you
>>> have more than one value with price=20 your going to have to make that
>>> each observation unique or drop one since merging m:m makes little
>>> sense and the merging process requires at least one dataset to be
>>> uniquely identified with regard to the variable your are matching the
>>> datasets with.
>>>
>>> hope this might be of help.
>>>
>>> Lim
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Richard Warr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I want to merge two data sets. The merge variable is the stock
>>>> price. However I would like to merge over a range of prices. For
>>>> example if the price is 20 in dataset1, I would like that to merge
>>>> with any price in the range of 19.5 to 20.5 in dataset2. Currently
>>>> my data sets each contain only a single stock price series (and other
>>>> variables).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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