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st: xt data, D and L operators and sort
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Neal Beck <[email protected]>
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st: xt data, D and L operators and sort
Date
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:14:30 +0200
I seem to be unsorting (from the natural xt sort order) my panel data quite frequently. So then stata complains about the data being unsorted when I use lag and difference operators. Yup, I can remember to say xtset before issueing a command using D. or L. if I think I might have resorted the data (one never quite knows). But is there no equivalent for xt
bys var: which got rid of the annoying need to issue a sort command before by:. Obviously my first pref by far would be to have stata always sort my data when it sees D. or L. with xt data. Am I mssing something obvious here?
TIA
Neal
Neal Beck
On leave AY 2009 at the Instituto Juan March, Madrid Spain
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