Limit Number of Observations

[Tom Goode]

Trying to limit the number of observations to the first 2000 and then run a regression. Please help with correct commands.

[Rich Goldstein]

the way you stated it (which is probably not really what you want to do) calls for something like:

drop if _n>2000

but you probably just want to exclude these for a particular analysis rather than from the data set so use the "in" operator as in:

sysuse auto
regress price mpg in 1/25

but, of course, substitute 2000 where I have written 25; see

h in

[Tom Goode]

thanks Rich!!!!!