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Re: st: detecting repeated ID's


From   Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: detecting repeated ID's
Date   Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:02:22 -0400

how about:
sort ID
drop if ID!=ID[_n-1] & ID!=ID[_n+1]

Rich

On 8/5/13 3:45 PM, David Jones wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
> 
> I have a dataset of property sales that has an identifier for the
> property ID. I want to know how many of the properties appear more
> than once and then from there I'd like to restrict the observations to
> only those that appear more than once (to see a change in sale value).
> 
> I've been doing some reading but so far haven't run across a way to do
> this very easily. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> David
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