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Re: st: Obtaining details about -merge, update-
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Obtaining details about -merge, update-
Date
Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:29:18 +1100
Perhaps I don't understand but isn't this what the _merge variable tells you?
Phil
On 19/10/2013, at 7:09, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Is there a relatively simple way to find out exactly what happened in the course of a -merge, update- command? In other words: I have two datasets with a number of overlapping variables and I want to find out how often, for each variable, a missing observation in the master was updated with a non-missing observation in the using dataset. Likewise, how often were observations in the master no updated because of a non-missing conflict. Basically, this would be similar to the current merge results table, but on a variable-by-variable basis rather than based on the dataset as a whole.
>
> Of course, this same functionality would be useful for -merge, replace-, although that is not my present concern.
>
> If the answer is "no", is this something that people would be interested in?
>
> Regards,
> Joe Canner
> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
>
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