st: Re: tsset repeated value problems

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Think about it as a bank statement. In your account, there may be  
multiple transactions posting on the same d/m/y: checks clearing, ATM  
withdrawals, deposits. So you cannot treat your account number as the  
'i' variable; you must treat the transaction as the 'i' variable, and  
associate it with the 'i' variable (flagging transactions on your  
account as j=1 and my account as j=2, e.g.). Then you can tsset i date
(where date is the d/m/y) and it will work. If you want the total  
value of transactions for each j and date, that's easy enough to  
calculate from these data with collapse.

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


On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> I'm trying to create a time series from a dataset with
> values for month, date, and year; however, multiple events
> happened on the same month and even year. Is there any way
> that I can use tsset without getting the r(451) ("repeated
> time values") error?
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