Re: st: duplicating observations

["louis boakye-yiadom" <louisby@hotmail.com>]

Thanks, Clint and Richard. The -expand- command is useful, but it appears it 
doesn't permit the generation of different numbers of copies for different 
observations. I'm using version 8.2. Thanks.

Louis



> try the -expand- command.
> type -help expand- for more information...
> --clint
>
>
> > Dear All,
> > Is there a Stata command for duplicating observations? I have a 
> summarised
> > dataset, in the sense that it is in a "frequency table" format, but I'm
> > interested in converting it into individual level observations. So I
> > reckon
> > if there is a way of asking Stata to generate multiple copies of an
> > observation, I would be able to have the data in the desired format. Any
> > help will be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> > Louis

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