No reason why it should.
. bysort group : gen time = _n
will in general produce quite
arbitrary values for -time-,
just as would
. sysuse auto
. bysort rep78 : gen time = _n
You're more likely to want something like
. bysort group (year) : gen time = _n
That is, for this to make sense, some
other variable must be available
to indicate the order _within_ groups.
Nick
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Clive Nicholas
> Unfortunately, -bysort group: gen time = _n- didn't do the
> trick, as I
> suspected it mightn't. That's the variable that, when
> generated, produces
> the "repeated time values within panel r(451);" error. :( I
> should have
> been a bit clearer on that earlier!
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