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Re: st: Observations that keep a feature in the whole sample period
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Observations that keep a feature in the whole sample period
Date
Tue, 21 May 2013 23:07:15 +0100
Sounds like
bysort entity (const_a) : drop if const_a[1] > 0.09716
Nick
[email protected]
On 21 May 2013 23:01, Miguel Angel Duran Munoz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Statalisters. I want to focus on agents in my dataset that have a
> particular feature; specifically, for those agents, and for each and every
> period (out of 64), the value of a variable (const_a) is larger than a
> particular threshold (0.097116). I have done what I show below.
> Nevertheless, I have realized that some of my agents are not in the sample
> since the first period, so what I am doing would mistakenly eliminate
> them. Will anyone help to solve this problem? Thanks in advance.
>
> bysort entity (date2): gen obs=_n
> drop if const_a<0.097116
> by entity: drop if obs[_N]<64
>
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