Bysort Stata. Sort by bysort egen sort order. Of course you can order your observation based on ordering one variable but you can go further and sort your data on multiple variables.
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. Not only could it be useful but crucial to sort your observations in a particular way when cleaning or creating outcomes. To illustrate let s use stocks dta.
N basically indexes observations rows.
Generate n n list if n 1. By without the sort option requires that the data be sorted by varlist. N 1 is the first row n 2 is the second and so on. You can use the sort command in stata to acheive this.
