xtsample: Sample out of an 'xtdata' data frame

Description Usage Arguments See Also Examples

Description

Function to extract a sample of observations out of a panel dataset, preserving all time measurements for each sampled observation.

Usage

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  xtsample(data, n = 20)

Arguments

data

data frame carrying an xtdata data frame

n

how many observations to sample

See Also

sample

Examples

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# Load QOG demo datasets.
data(qog.demo)
# Random sample of ten QOG countries.
unique(xtsample(qog.ts.demo, 10)$cname)
# Random cross-section of year 2000.
xtsubset(xtsample(qog.ts.demo, 10), year == 2000)[, 1:5]

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