On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Leandro Zipitria wrote: > I have a panel dataset and I want to delete the first 31 observations of > each unit. I have read that one possible way is to restrict the sample and > then save it.
That's right. genr time smpl time > 31 --restrict store smaller.gdt > The second one is a little more tricky. I have one dataset as a panel, and > another that has additional information of some of the variables, but just > once. The two databases are of different length. Is there any way that gretl > merge this two databases and repeat each value of ? Yes. Given a panel dataset of dimension N x T you can append data with a series length of N or T and the added data will be repeated as appropriate to complete the panel. Allin Cottrell
