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st: RE: Just another data reshaping problem


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Just another data reshaping problem
Date   Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:02:53 +0100

gen id = _n 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Cox 
> Sent: 22 April 2005 15:32
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: Just another data reshaping problem
> 
> 
> Looks like 
> 
> gen id = 1 
> reshape long group_ ID_g , i(id) 
> 
> and then a -contract-. 
> 
> There's really no substitute for detailed study 
> of [R] reshape. The FAQ at
> 
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/reshape3.html
> 
> may also help. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Sascha Robert
> 
> > Complex data reshaping unfortunately seems to lie beyond my logical 
> > capabilities... so anyone up to a little brain-teaser?
> > 
> > My data (simplified) looks like this:
> > 
> > time    group_1 ID_g1      group_2    ID_g2
> > 1       0       1          1          2
> > 1       0       1          1          3
> > 1       0       2          1          1
> > 1       1       1          0          1
> > 2...
> > and so on.
> > 
> > The data says something like (for the first row:) At time 
> 1, ID 1 of 
> > group 0 encountered ID 2 of group 2. Note that an encounter always 
> > involves two entities of two different groups.
> > 
> > I would like to reshape the data to the form:
> > 
> > group    ID    num_encounters(*)
> > 0        1     x
> > 0        2     y
> > 1        1     z
> > ...
> > 
> > (*)sum of ALL dyadic encounters where ID participated
> 

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