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st: Pick the first record with a value
From
Keniajin Wambui <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Pick the first record with a value
Date
Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:40:51 +0300
Dear All;
nparasit numserial ndate_added
42231 05-Jun-00
7992 42231 03-Jun-00
42242 04-Jun-00
144000 42242 05-Jun-00
712800 42242 04-Jun-00
NEG 42242 08-Jun-00
371200 42242 06-Jun-00
10138 42242 07-Jun-00
110224 21-Dec-11
0 110224 12-Dec-11
I am using Stata 12 on Windows 7 .I have a data set with duplicated
numserials. I want to pick the first nparasit with a value acording to
date added (ndate_added). I have tried using sorting but without
success . How can I go about it
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