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Re: st: Add obs with values so each possible value occurs at least once
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Add obs with values so each possible value occurs at least once
Date
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:23:51 +0000
Suppose your dataset is saved as -work- and the variable in question is -id-.
clear
set obs 100
gen id = _n
merge 1:m id using work
Nick
[email protected]
On 10 March 2014 16:12, Jen Zhen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have what should be an easy question, yet I don't find the answer:
>
> I have a dataset in which var1 takes 74 out of the 100 possible
> integer values between 1 and 100 inclusive. Some of the values occur
> more than once. I would like to expand the dataset such that each of
> the 100 possible values occurs at least once.
>
> How do I do that?
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