Stata Bysort. Bysort runs a command seperately for each value of a variable. Remove repeated deaths from patient 8.
Stata and r commands. N basically indexes observations rows. Command you need to first sort var beforw uaing the by however it is possible to the by and the sort into a single command.
Stata faq when you want to use by var.
Stata cmd stata orders the data according to varlist1 and varlist2 but the stata cmd only acts upon the values in varlist1. Not only could it be useful but crucial to sort your observations in a particular way when cleaning or creating outcomes. N 1 is the first row n 2 is the second and so on. Remove repeated deaths from patient 8.
