In Stata, and indeed elsewhere, you can't
have it both ways. The definition of a panel
implies (a) identifiable individuals and (b)
at most one observation for each time unit
and individual. Other data structures cannot
be mapped into that without sacrificing something.
Nick
[email protected]
Lars Korsholm
> I'm posting a question for a friend.
>
> he has a dataset with data and time variable
> and he would like to use the nice features of tsset
> or something like that.
> each individual is just seen once
> but several individuals are seen each day.
>
> I vague remeber this issue been discussed before on this list.
> Any hint?
>
> Best Lars
>
> PS just using the date varibale in tsset yields:
>
> "repeated time values in sample r(451);"
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