Re: st: Data Management

["Friedrich Huebler" <fhuebler@gmail.com>]

Raphael,

. bysort id: gen x = 1 if _n < 4
. replace x = 2 if x == .

Friedrich

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Raphael Fraser
<raphael.fraser@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 100 subjects with 6 obs each. I would like to create a new
>  variable containing 1s for the first three obs and 2s for the
>  remaining obs for each id.
>
>  Raphael
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