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RE: st: reshaping data


From   "Wallace, John" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: reshaping data
Date   Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:03:57 -0700

Clearly Russel read the dataset more clearly than I did - his approach
is correct.

-JW

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell
Dimond
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: reshaping data

Oops--missing a word in there:

bysort x: gen j=_n
reshape wide y z, i(x) j(j)

Russell

Russell Dimond wrote:
> Hi Mazhar,
> 
> The only thing you're missing is a "j" variable to tell Stata which 
> observation is which within each x group.
> 
> bysort x: gen j=_n
> reshape y z, i(x) j(j)
> 
> Russell Dimond
> Research Computing Specialist
> Social Science Computing Cooperative
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 
> Mazhar Islam wrote:
> 
>> I have a dataset with the following format:
>>
>> X    Y     Z
>> 1   12    2.5 1    3    3.4
>> 1    7    8.9
>> 2   18    0.9
>> 2    6    1.9
>> 2   11    3.7
>> 3   5     1.2
>> 3   19    4.5
>> 3    8    5.6
>>
>> I want to reshape it as follows:
>>
>> X   Y1   Z1   Y2   Z2    Y3   Z3  1   12   2.5   3   3.4    7   8.9
>> 2   18   0.9   6   1.9   11   3.7
>> 3    5   1.2  19   4.5    8   5.6
>>
>> I know I need to use reshape command. But don't know
>> how. Can anyone please help? Thanks a lot.
>> Mazhar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> +-------------------------+
>>       | gstn   comp    distance |
>>       |-------------------------|
>>    1. |    4    105   7174.6529 |
>>    2. |    4     52   9432.1751 |
>>    3. |    4     55   9760.1456 |
>>    4. |    4     59   10351.248 |
>>    5. |    4     57   10590.998 |
>>       |-------------------------|
>>    6. |    5    691   8421.3531 |
>>    7. |    5    111   8912.8855 |
>>    8. |    5    109   9413.6016 |
>>    9. |    5      7   10006.499 |
>>   10. |    5    110   10485.966 |
>>       |-------------------------|
>>   11. |    7     10   5240.1692 |
>>   12. |    7      9   7148.0657 |
>>   13. |    7    501   8312.9357 |
>>   14. |    7      8   8761.7633 |
>>   15. |    7    494   11348.099 |
>>
>>
>>
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