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Re: st: Listing the first 5 observations
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"Roger B. Newson" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Listing the first 5 observations
Date
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:31:38 +0100
How about:
sort age, stable
by age: list if _n<=5
This will sort your dataset by age (preserving the existing order within
age groups), and then list the first 5 observatios in each age group. As
you say, -in- cannot be combinedwith -by:-.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 29/08/2012 15:23, Damian Finlayson wrote:
Hi,
This seems like a relatively simple query but no matter which way I
try I cannot get it to work.
I am trying to randomly select a number of observations according a
set criteria.
Say I have 3 variables: var1, var2 and random. Var1 consists purely
of unique values (such as names). Var 2 has groups/categories (e.g.
age). Random consists of unique random numbers.
I would like to get stata to sort each category (age) by a random
number and then list the first 5 names for a given age say 49.
The command I am trying to use is:
list var1 if age == 49
but I cannot seem to amend this command so that only the first 5
observations (as per the random number) are listed. If I use in 1/5
it does not work as the first observation for age 49 could be the 53
observation the second at 114 and so on. If I ask for all
observations I could end up with thousands of names being listed.
Thanks in advance for your help,
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