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RE: st: Count observations


From   "Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Count observations
Date   Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:34:56 -0500

Another simple way is 

qui tab auto
di r(r)

Al Feiveson

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Count observations

There was a review of this area in

http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0042

The article discusses several ways to approach the question, including the program -distinct-, which you could download from the Stata Journal site. (-search distinct- first.)

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. distinct

              |        Observations
              |      total   distinct
--------------+----------------------
         make |         74         74
        price |         74         74
          mpg |         74         21
        rep78 |         69          5
     headroom |         74          8
        trunk |         74         18
       weight |         74         64
       length |         74         47
         turn |         74         18
 displacement |         74         31
   gear_ratio |         74         36
      foreign |         74          2
Nick
[email protected]


On 27 June 2013 18:13, Miguel Angel Duran Munoz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Statalisters. I have a doubt that must have a very simple 
> solution, but I have not been able to find it. I have a variable where 
> some numbers appear more than once. And I would like to know the 
> number of different numbers; ie,  variable = 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4..., so 
> there are 4 different numbers.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Miguel.
>
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