No; in general this is _not_ the same
as _n, even if the argument of -group()- is the
whole varlist.
-group()- creates ids according to the sort order
defined by its argument. Also its result will
match any ties in the data.
Nick
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Jose Valderrama
> Other way:
>
> egen id=group(x1 x2...)
Seok-Woo Kwon
> Is there a STATA command that automatically generates a case
> id for each record in a dataset?
>
*
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* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
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