Re: st: RE: constructing an unbalanced panel data set based on existing

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 11:29 AM 3/29/2006, Nick wrote:
> This example affords amusement at various levels.
>
> First, only earlier today I posted
>
> gen length = end - beg + 1
> expand length
> bysort Persnr beg: gen month = beg[1] + _n - 1
> drop length
>
> as an answer to a question to Anna Manzoni. In
> its main feature, this is the same problem,
> but no one seemed to notice.
> [...]
I did notice, but didn't jump in at the time.  But it was very 
obvious.  I also noticed because I had a very similar problem 
recently; and I used -expand- as well.

--David

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