Re: st: _00001 already define error using egen xx=group()

[Barry Quinn <b.quinn@qub.ac.uk>]

Thanks for swift response to this and apologies for late reply.

Firstly I am using Stata 11.2 which is up to date.

Nick:
Thanks for the work around for my problem
 Your test using auto data doesn't produce the above error.
Here are the results from the command you mentioned.
. su insample oneyear

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
    insample |      1525    .6557377     .475283          0          1
     oneyear |      1525    .4754098    .4995588          0          1

Paul: 
Thanks for your work around, which does work.
The problem being that I have estimated average treatment effects for 8 outcome variables across 10 different samples.  
Which unfortunately gives me 80 datasets to first and second call in stata.

I agree with Nick that this is a worrying problem and I have also tested it on an older version of stata (11.1) with the same result. 

Budgeting constraints mean I cannot get my school to purchase stata 12 licences at present.

Barry Quinn
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