手册是这么说的:
The second message tells us that 2,744 groups were “dropped” by clogit. When either union = 0
or union = 1 for all observations for an individual, this individual’s contribution to the log-likelihood
is zero. Although these are perfectly valid observations in every sense, they have no effect on the
estimation, so they are not included in the total “Number of obs”. Hence, the reported “Number of
obs” gives the effective sample size of the estimation. Here it is 12,035 observations—only 46% of
the total 26,200.