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Re: st: merge with random assignment
From
Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
To
Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: merge with random assignment
Date
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:46:55 -0500
On Mar 20, 2014, at 10:41 PM, R Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to merge two tables
<snip>
> I want to merge two tables using ionumber. The goal is to add naics to talbe 2. As you can tell, sometimes ionumber in table 1 correspond to multiple naics values. In such cases, I would like to randomly assign the ionumber to one of the 4 possible naics (11113, 11119, 11114, 11116).
use table1
isid ionumber naics, so
set seed <random_number_seed>
gen u = runiform()
isid ionumber u, so
by ionumber: keep if _n==1
merge 1:m ionumber using table2
Specifying <random_number_seed> ensures that the selection is reproducible.
-- Phil
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