Panel Data Cluster Analysis

[Arjun Jana]

Hello everyone,
I have a panel data consists of 280 units for 7 time periods. I want to perform a panel cluster analysis and want the units to be grouped in 3 groups. How can I do that?

[Maxence Morlet]

What do you mean by panel cluster analysis, and what three groups are you thinking of?

Are you referring to clustered standard errors?

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Arjun:
I'm not clear with what you're after.
If you're dealing, ad it seems, with a panel dataset, panels should be already defined (N dimension).
That said, if you want to cluster the panels at a higher level (which is something different from cluster robust standard error), you may want to consider the -group- funtion available from -egen-.
If what above is not helpful, please provide more details following the FAQ. Thanks.

[Arjun Jana]

Thanks for your reply, may be I put my question in a vague way.
I just want to know, can we do cluster analysis in panel data. Like I have a panel dataset which consists of 280 panel units and 7 time points. Now I have a variables named 'temperature' for all the units and in all time points.
Now, what I want is, to create clusters of panel units who have similar 'temperature' over time or similar variation in temperature over time. Can we do that?

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Arjun:
you may want to consider the -group- funtion available from -egen-.

[Arjun Jana]

Thanks