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Re: st: _N in by-groups
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: _N in by-groups
Date
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:54:21 +0100
Thanks; my previous was written while away from Stata.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>> Somewhere in the documentation there is a warning about trying to use _n with -egen-.
>
>
> From -help egen- (under Description):
>
> "Explicit subscripting (using _N and _n), which is commonly used with generate, should not be used with egen; see subscripting."
>
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