Re: st: bysort problem

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

What is -var3-?

Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:
> All observations are as they appear. No extra decimals. Here is a 
> revision without touse and locals
>
>   tempvar _id
>   qui gen `_id'=0
>   local _idN=2
>   while `_idN'!=1 {
>                    bysort var1 var2: replace `_id'=_n'
>           count if  var3>1
>           replace var1=var1+(`_id'-1)*0.001 if `_id'>1
>           sum `_id', detail
>                local _idN=r(max)
>           list var1 var2 '_id'
>      }
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