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Re: st: RE: By: "by varlist1 (varlist2) , how to perform command by varlist2)
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Dilip Pandey <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: By: "by varlist1 (varlist2) , how to perform command by varlist2)
Date
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:30:52 -0500
Martin,
Thank you so much. Nick's article addressed my question.
Dilip
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dr. Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> <>
> To be honest, I do not understand your question. Maybe you can give a concrete example. In the meantime, note that -bysort- can perform the -sort- operation for you. Also read up on the whole issue in NJC`s http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dilip Pandey
> Sent: Montag, 2. August 2010 21:08
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> Subject: st: By: "by varlist1 (varlist2) , how to perform command by varlist2)
>
> Dear Statalist;
> I am STATA 11 user.
> I have sorted my data as -
>
> sort varlist1 (varlist2) (varlist3) (varlist4)
>
> Now I want to perform STATA command: thru_dt[_n+1) - from_dt[_n] by
> varlist2 (not varlist1, keeping sort order performed earlier)
> with STATA command:
>
> by varlist1 (varlist2): gen x = thru_dt[_n+1) - from_dt[_n]
> STATA verifies that data are sorted by varlist 1 varlist2 and performs
> command by varlist1.
>
> I will highly appreciate suggestion on "How to perform STATA command
> for varlist2 in above situation.
> Thanks.
> Dilip
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