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RE: -by:- is sweet [was: Re: Re: st: Creating a new variable with information from other observations]


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: -by:- is sweet [was: Re: Re: st: Creating a new variable with information from other observations]
Date   Mon, 19 May 2008 21:34:45 +0100

Your own solution was to -merge- the data with a version of itself.
That's very Stataish and wins good marks for style! 

Nick
[email protected] 

Teresio Poggio

Well, that's the difference between providing a sandwich and haute
cuisine... ;-)
Thanks Nick for the mundane way to do it (and for poetry as well).

Teresio

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:48 PM, n j cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>
> A more mundane solution uses -by:-.

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