Re: st: bysort problem

["Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" <npatsop@cc.uoi.gr>]

Jeph Herrin wrote:

> What is -var3-?
>
> Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:
>
> > All observations are as they appear. No extra decimals. Here is a 
> > revision without touse and locals
> >
> >   tempvar _id
> >   qui gen `_id'=0
> >   local _idN=2
> >   while `_idN'!=1 {
> >                    bysort var1 var2: replace `_id'=_n'
> >           count if  var3>1
> >           replace var1=var1+(`_id'-1)*0.001 if `_id'>1
> >           sum `_id', detail
> >                local _idN=r(max)
> >           list var1 var2 '_id'
> >      }
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var3 is sth like an Id var. In a normal database the values will be 
unique sting identifiers, e.g. "Nikos 1998" 'Tom 2006" etc.

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