Re: st: duplicating observations

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

Thanks for all the suggestions! The frequency weights option especially 
looks promising. I've got to leave now, but I'll let you know the outcome 
once I've explored the suggestions.

Louis



> As some have said, you can use the -expand- command.  If you only need to
> expand so you can estimate models, many models allow frequency weights,
> which basically do the expansion on-the-fly during estimation.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Sam
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, louis boakye-yiadom wrote:
>
> > 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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