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Re: st: Keep/Drop Observations for Top/Bottom X%
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Keep/Drop Observations for Top/Bottom X%
Date
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:07:43 +0200
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Justina Fischer wrote:
> in principle you might be right.
>
> However, for reasons of practicability it is sometimes recommendable for subset analysis to simply upload the full data and drop a part rather than working with an 'if' restriction throughout all regressions.
It is largely a matter of style. I like the principle of keeping your
data as much as possible intact, and I thus prefer the -if- route over
the -keep- route. Using if selections throughout my analysis has
become natural for me, and even desirable as a constant reminder of
which sub-sample I am working on. The main reason why I sometimes
deviate from that default is when the data is so large (e.g. Census
data) that it becomes unmanageable.
-- Maarten
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