st: Re:consecutive obs

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:33, Carter wrote:

> There are duplicate commands already written for Stata, run help
> duplicates.
>
> The following link has also come in handy for me in the past if you are
> looking to count the recurrence of a particular individual across time.
But duplicates will not address the issues of spells: that is, knowing 
that someone is in the sample 10 times does not address whether there 
are gaps in the history. To deal with that you need some of the tricks 
in tsspell.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics      baum@bc.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

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