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st: bysort: and subscripts
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Neal Beck <[email protected]>
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st: bysort: and subscripts
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:45 +0100
Incidentally, the answer to my question of yesterday opened up a whole new world to me and greatly simplified my dealing with panel data. Perhaps I am the only person on this list who did not know how bysort redefined the meaning of _n. If you have panels and have not played with this, I heartily recommend Nick Cox's 2002 SJ piece on some very cute uses of bysort with panels.
Thanks to Nick and Maarten Buis for pointing out this trick to me. If only I had RTFM'ed year ago!
NEal
Neal Beck
On leave AY 2009 at the Instituto Juan March, Madrid Spain
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