Re: st: Observations that keep a feature in the whole sample period

["Miguel Angel Duran Munoz" <maduran@uma.es>]

Thanks, Nick.

> Correct on -keep-. Sorry about that.
>
> The -sort- order
>
> bysort entity (const_a) :
>
> ensures that -const_a[1]- is the lowest for each agent, not the first.
> If the lowest value for each agent is above the threshold, then all
> the observations for that agent  are above.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 21 May 2013 23:16, Miguel Angel Duran Munoz <maduran@uma.es> wrote:
>> Thanks, Nick. I guess you mean -keep- instead of -drop-. Nevertheless,
>> the
>> command that you suggest would not guarantee that I keep the agents that
>> have been above the threhsold for the whole sample period (ie, I would
>> be
>> including agents that were above the threshold in the first period and
>> then might have been above or below it).
>>
>>> Sounds like
>>>
>>> bysort entity (const_a) : drop if const_a[1] > 0.09716
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>>
>>> On 21 May 2013 23:01, Miguel Angel Duran Munoz <maduran@uma.es> 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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