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Re: st: how to drop duplicate values
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: how to drop duplicate values
Date
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:01:52 +0200
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Malin Lundberg Rasmussen wrote:
> I have a cohort of patients with a severity grade for each eye. I am only going to use one eye, and I want it to be the eye with a certain grade, say 2.
> I have made the variable long, so the data looks like this:
>
> 1. id:1 var*:2
> 2. Id:1 var*:2
> 3. Id:2 var*:2
> 4.Id2: var*:3
>
> I use the command
> Keep if var*==2
> But then I have some patients who have the same grade in both eyes.
>
> 1. id:1 var*:2
> 2. Id:1 var*:2
> 3. Id:2 var*:2
>
> How do I drop these? (in the above list 1 or 2).
bys id: keep if _n == 1 // keep first
or
bys id : keep if _n == _N // keep last
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
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http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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