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Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Spelling errors in string variables
Date
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:22:32 +0000
SJ-8-3 dm0039 . . . Stata tip 64: Cleaning up user-entered string variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Herrin and E. Poen
Q3/08 SJ 8(3):444--445 (no commands)
tip on how to clean up user-entered string variables
http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0039
FAQ . . . . . . Listing observations in a group that differ on a variable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
11/01 How do I list observations in a group that differ
on a variable?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/listing-observations-in-group/
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Estrella Gomez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anybody know how can I check the existence of spelling error in my
> dataset? I have two string variables with nearly 1,500,000 observations,
> and I would like to check if in some cases there are different names for
> the same individual (i.e.: Mexico / Mejico / mexico)
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