st: Re: sum() returns different results every time, why?

[Kit Baum <kitbaum@me.com>]

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This is a well-known phenomenon arising as Tim suggests. I believe you  
can fix it by using the stable option on -sort-.

Kit

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On Aug 2, 2009, at 02:33 , Tim wrote:

> My guess is decil and rincome do not uniquely identify the  
> observations.
> In that case your sort order will not necessarily be the same, so you
> will be accumulating parting_exp in a different order each time.






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