Absolutely not.
In essence, Stata tries
to do within the loop precisely what you
tell it to do. The only automated steps
concern the macro controlling the loop,
which only exists within the loop.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
adiallo5@worldbank.org
> Besides, when stata exits the loop, doesn't it automatically
> drop the id variable and leaves the dataset unchanged?
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